Word: confusionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The remedial reading films are now in the process of being improved. But James F. Barclay, director of the Film Service, acknowledges that he has temporarily struck a snag. To carry out his present plan in bettering the film, Barclay faces the task of superimposing three pictures on a single...
What should have been a week of triumph and hope for India was a week of confusion, riots, petty bickerings and incredible irrelevancies.
"We particularly object to having eight of the 17 members of the Council appointed by the nine members who are elected. The confusion which prevailed during the war has forced the Council to be even more unrepresentative than it normally is. We do not believe that student interests will be...
Veteran newsmen wondered how anything could ever come out of the wild confusion. One delegate mistook a two-star admiral for a Yugoslav observer. Reporters themselves caught the fever. One thought he was buttonholing Walter Reuther, embarrassedly found he was talking to a Chicago Tribune staff writer.
Finally, at 11:30, the big bell rang. After the delay, trading (in old futures at the new ceilings) was even more lively than usual. By week's end, all grain prices were up to their new ceilings at Chicago and the luckless "shorts" stood to lose their shirts...