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...Laymen still do not understand psychiatry, partly because of its mumbo-jumbo terminology. They still have "the human reaction of horror to psychiatric disease...
...specific: let government take over the means of production. To Mises, the Austrian free-trade economist now exiled in the U.S., the evil that afflicts the world has one origin everywhere: too much government intervention in men's livelihoods. To Mises, Laski's way of thinking is mumbo jumbo, utterly divorced from reality. To Laski, Mises' ideas are about as useful as a stone hatchet. Soviet Heaven? Laski's book is a jeweled affair, packed with all the learned rag, tag, and bobtail that has become embedded in a remarkably assimilative mind. The Laski argument...
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...