Word: mistakenly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second Godkin Lecture delivered yesterday and entitled "Planned Economy in an Oppressive State," Lewis W. Douglas attacked the authoritarian thesis from two angles: a mistaken conception of the State, and the harm which such a State must bring to the consumer...
...against its will, partly by force of circumstance but largely by the most gigantic campaign of bamboozlement that ever fooled a nation. Many a U. S. patriot still believes that the U. S. patriotic rabies of 1917 was self-induced. Readers of Road to War will learn how badly mistaken they were. Analyst Millis isolates the infecting bacteria: British diplomacy, Allied propaganda, U. S. gullibility...
...Radek, he like everybody and everybody like Joe Radek," says the hero of this picture when it starts. Presently, Joe Radek (Paul Muni) learns that he has been mistaken. A Pennsylvania coal miner with nothing on his mind except his girl Anna (Karen Morley), he is so dismayed when she runs off with a company policeman that he gets blind drunk and staggers into a meeting of his union. There a hired agitator, stoolpigeon for a racketeering labor organization whose scheme is to start the strikes that it gets paid to settle, is telling the miners that the heads...
...make the school more than a tutoring school for undergraduates who have failed to satisfy their requirements and for other college representatives interested in casual study. He wants it to present the facts of the world today to persons active in its problems and to separate them from mistaken theories...
...Cabinet officer demanded of sleepy-eyed Presidential Secretary Early. Had the President gone back on his promise that he, Harold Ickes, was to subdivide the funds allotted to public works under the new bill? He wanted explanations or retractions. Hastily a White House communique announced that the Press was mistaken, that only one hand should hold the cake knife and that hand belonged to Franklin D. Roosevelt...