Word: ignoramuses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fails to reach this conclusion is an ignoramus who has not got the right to complain or be surprised at the catastrophe toward which he is going...
...singleminded, sincere, intellectually limited man, subjected to a succession of groveling humiliations. A devastating chapter is the account of the torpedoed world Monetary and Economic Conference in London 1933. In it, Author Moley makes out Cordell Hull a simpleton let down by his Chief, the President a pitiable ignoramus "saying two plus two made ten" who didn't know beans about the international money system which he blew sky high...
...Constitution, given to India mainly by Sir Samuel Hoare when he was Secretary of State for India (TIME, Aug. 12, 1935, et ante), was tested in its first trial-by-ballot last week. The voting was in what an ignoramus might call "only provincial elections" but several of the Indian provinces involved are each as large as Italy. Out of 350,000,000 people who inhabit India, some 35,000,000 cast the votes counted last week and of these about 6,000,000 were women. It was the claim of Mother Britain, voiced in her London Times, that...
Some Europeans still believe that there are wild Indians in Indiana and buffaloes in Buffalo. Most Europeans still believe that Chicago's streets echo daily with gangster gunfire. No such ignoramus is Emile E. C. Mathis, French motor car tycoon who has visited the U. S. many times. Last week he and handsome Mme Mathis were in the U. S. again. One evening in Manhattan they made a gay night of it at swank restaurants and night clubs, winding up with scrambled eggs & coffee at famed Reuben's ("That's All") all-night restaurant on 58th Street...
Before the numbers bankers changed from Clearing House to race track figures and began to set rigid deadlines for play, newspaper offices were constantly annoyed by attempts to bribe printers, statisticians, copy boys. Even now an occasional ignoramus who thinks the Press knows everything in advance will approach a financial editor with promises of a split on the contemplated killing. One of the few successful numbers frauds occurred in the Curb's stock sales total. A person who looked like a regular Curb employe marched calmly in to the waiting newsmen, posted faked figures. The newsmen dashed...