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Word: confusionism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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The real anger had gone out of the debate over meat, but the President still drew scorn from every quarter. Republican politicians pointed to the confusion in the White House. Fiorello LaGuardia, speechmaking in Oklahoma City, called the President the "Roy Riegels* of American politics." Pint-sized Billy Rose, showman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Quiet Week | 10/28/1946 | See Source »

Contacted last night, David E. Owen, chairman of the history Department, asserted that "there is nothing sensational about this move; it has been contemplated for some time." To "clear up confusion" he added that his Department would continue to accept holders of S.B.'s for enrollment leading to an advanced...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Latin Waived as Requirement for Ph.D. in History | 10/25/1946 | See Source »

Political Confusion. Where is recovery coming from? From politics? European politics has become just one vast area of frustration. The tory parties are finished, though it is characteristic of individual tories that some of them haven't yet found that out. The traditional social democratic parties are old and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Continent In Travail: EUROPE'S DEATH: (Hutchinson's Report) | 10/21/1946 | See Source »

As one who belongs, broadly speaking, to Henry Wallace's school of thought in domestic politics, 1 should like to challenge Wallace's foreign politics, as expressed in his recent attack on Secretary Byrnes's policy toward Russia. I would have thought it wrong in any event...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Continent In Travail: EUROPE'S HOPE: (Dr. Niebuhr's Report) | 10/21/1946 | See Source »

"As now conducted," he wrote, "[presidential press conferences] are as unsatisfactory as they are dangerous. . . . [Truman's] system is bound to produce the results it so frequently does produce: not information and understanding but confusion and consternation throughout the world." The public has to know what the Government is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Foot-in-Mouth Disease | 10/21/1946 | See Source »

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