Word: mumbo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since Britain's Lord Keynes and the U.S. Treasury's Harry D. White unveiled their international currency plans, many a U.S. banker has grumbled publicly & privately at the financial mumbo jumbo of "unitas" and "bancor" (TIME, April 5 et seq.). Almost to the last vice president they have pleaded for a simpler, more down-to-earth plan...
Russia's Mumbo-Jumboism Sirs: Apropos your recent article on "Churches in Russia" (TIME, April 12) and particularly with regard to this quotation: "Most foreign observers . . . believe that the Kremlin is basically just as anti-religious as it ever was," I should like to offer a word of parenthetical comment. It is apparently little remembered that pre-revolution Russia's official religion - and consequently "religion" as the Russians understand the term - was about as unchristian a religion as any African mumbo-jumboism. In support of this I offer the following statements made by John MacMurray, eminent professor...
Inside, the chunky Caudillo spoke mostly in the flowery phrases of Fascist mumbo jumbo. But he did predict that the war would last another six or seven years. And, with British Ambassador Sir Samuel Hoare and U.S. Ambassador Carlton Hayes sitting there listening, the Caudillo suggested that all the belligerents might yet get together and fight Russia. Said Franco: "The presence of Russia on one of the sides gives the struggle in Europe the character of a war to death. Many are the surprises that a long war might yet present...
...chancel of Westminster's blitzed St. Margaret's Church, The House of Commons assembled to "elect" his successor. Actually, the new Speaker had already been selected by the majority Conservative Party, approved by Laborites; it only remained for the House to play through a venerable mumbo jumbo...
...Imperial Japanese Intelligence, who began spreading cash and the two-race doctrine: one white, the other black, brown, yellow red. At first a handful of U.S. blacks may have dreamed their yellow brothers would make them masters of U.S. whites. Later, FBI believes, racketeering took control. Typical Takahashi mumbo jumbo...