Word: confusionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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He needed some reassurance. All week long the Democrats had been snickering as Republicans lambasted each other over the 20% income-tax cut promised by bullheaded Harold Knutson during the campaign. Knutson had tried to bulldoze his Ways and Means Committee into endorsing his bill, only to have Michigan'...
We see all around us . . .the' semantic confusion according to which Russia is a democracy of another kind. ... It is downright absurd to imagine that by surrendering political democracy one can get any other kind of democracy. And yet this was the illusion of many who thought of themselves...
In three days of confusion, the Chinese dollar rocketed from 10,000-to-1 U.S. dollar, to 14,000-to-1. One day this week a foreigner walked down a crowded Shanghai street carrying Chinese currency, bundied but unwrapped, up to his chin like kindling wood. He was unguarded-and...
The wild rumors let loose by a reported U.S. decision on export subsidies pointed up the need for a new U.S.-China policy to replace the outworn mediation policy abandoned last month when George Marshall left China. TIME Correspondent Frederick Gruin then cabled: "It looks as if the book of...
Harvard's track forces failed to deflate Army's wartime invincibility balloon Saturday at the Point, but their 52-point accumulation undoubtedly had Ivy coaches reaching for the aspirin. Before the meet, confusion resulted when the Crimson learned that fourth place was to be counted. The contract called for a...