Word: confusionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That day Army trucks ground up the drive, unloaded hundreds of empty boxes. Packers tramped into the rooms. Servants began emptying drawers and cup boards. The Executive Mansion's normal order was lost in cheerless confusion and lights burned late at night.
By now the White House was in confusion. Cabinet members and heads of war agencies had arrived, grave and solemn-faced. Newsmen scurried about, buttonholing everyone; except for Steve Early, the White House secretariat had collapsed with grief. Shortly before 7 p.m. the Trumans, the Cabinet members and other bigwigs...
A disjointed economy was kept from runaway inflation. Franklin Roosevelt set his production sights high, but they were met. There was bumbling, confusion, a spate of name-calling. But the war was fought and fought well. And with it, mainly by the good offices of its President, the U.S. took...
Beyond Credulity. The German radio filled in the canvas of confusion. Hungry Berliners were told to plant potatoes in their flower pots, in order to ease the burden on the strained food supply system. Sailors on the Baltic were ordered to scuttle their ships should there be danger of capture...
The memorandum was not made public, but one of its big points had previously been elaborated by Vandenberg on the floor of the Senate. He will insist that all decisions made during the war (Poland, Greece, Rumania, Yugoslavia, etc.) be re-viewed at the final peace conference. This proposal may...