Word: flimflamming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Panamanian President Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia heard last week that the National Assembly, due to convene on Jan. 2, might oust him from the Presidency, which he seized by "Constitutional" flimflam in 1941. He decided to do something about it. By summary decree he dissolved the Assembly and suspended the Constitution. He also imposed strict censorship and posted mounted police around the hostile National Youth Congress...
High up, too, among revivals, is the 44-year-old flimflam, The Belle of New York, now seeing its third war without change of jokes or costumes. Longest-lived musical is Ivor (Keep the Home Fires Burning) Novello's The Dancing Years, recently past the 1,000 mark. Other flourishing musicals: Get a Load of This, featuring Winston Churchill's son-in-law, Vic Oliver; and a revival of Rose-Marie, a Broadway favorite of the '20s. Americans in Britain damn London's musicals as miles below U.S. standards, and former N.Y. Herald Tribune Critic Richard...
...last week's strength Wall Street had two pat reasons: 1) most utility stocks are undervalued on the basis of assets and earnings; 2) the SEC's recent dissolution orders (under the "Death Sentence" Act of 1935) may eliminate enough corporate red tape and legal flimflam to enhance the value of outstanding preferred shares...
...reckoned without WPB's labyrinthine channels of authority. He did not know about the crew of second-rate dollar-a-year men-ex-salesmen and promoters whose chief duty as businessmen had been to act pleasant-which had grown so big that Washington called it WPB's "flimflam layer...