Word: confusionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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A mine-run banker in St. Louis before Old Pal Harry Truman brought him to the White House as naval aide, Vardaman lately had been doing much speaking out against Federal Reserve credit curbs and the Board's ban on margin trading. But what few listeners have realized is...
The Radcliffe girl with her pile of books has increased the confusion in already crowded classrooms. She has taken with a minimum of mumbling the classroom changes at the beginning of each term, although she occasionally wonders whether she is attending the Peripatetic School or Harvard University. With good grace...
Revealing of the public's state of mind are the answers to the second group of questions. Republican voters declared themselves as having "had enough" of "frivolous agency spending," "controls, confusion, communism and claptrap," "Bungling at Washington, shortage, OPA etc." Some added the word, "Truman." These people wanted more of...
The legislative confusion that confounded Wood-row Wilson in 1918 and Herbert Hoover in 1930 may appear again--while the United States writhes in another world crisis--when the votes of next Tuesday's election are tabulated and the Eightieth Congress is on its way to Washington. Both the pages...
At week's end, those few clear facts had been culled out of the mad confusion of the world press. In London, the Daily Mail fell overboard, estimated the value of the loot at $2 million. U.S. papers wildly reported that two socialite women were under suspicion, and that...