Word: planlessness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...save that a number of important people have been able to see with their own eyes that Franklin Roosevelt is not equipped with two horns and a tail. Washington was last week agreed that so far as meeting the problem of recession is concerned, the Administration is just as planless as it was two months...
...tremendous multiplicity of interests in this country which cause this shot fired round the world to hit the Lexington men in the back, without ever having found its mark in Washington. There is undoubtedly much fear and to-do in the South, West, and Middle-West; of the planless planning, the extravagance, and the new-booms-and-depressions of the Roosevelt regime. But the expressions of this are not going to come from the East, if at all. In the popular mind, the voice of the East is the voice of the Bankers, and the intensity of this feeling...
...might to be those of "order' and "current" Under the system of concentration and distribution the College became able to assimilate the oncoming groups of men entering the University year by year. The academic pattern thus arranged provided an ordered and balanced plan of study as important for the planless entrants as it has proved to be for those with a decided bias...
...average man now feels toward its very name. Until the Socialists have bridged this gap between theory and practice and given assurance that control of business by experts can be brought about within the fabric of present system, they are not likely to make great progress against the planless but firmly entrenched older parties...
Strictures. With much of Thomas' general criticism of the U. S. scene even tycoons may agree. Says Thomas: "The whole [economic] system is planless and extremely chaotic. . . . Employers have not even been able to forecast the market for their own products or prevent recurring depression. ... In sum total this planless, wasteful profit system gives us a new type of misery: poverty and unemployment in the midst of potential plenty...