Word: walle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stories? Korzybski says that what's wrong with people with "Aristotelian orientations" is that they tend to build their attitudes and their lives on verbal definitions . . . His "non-Aristotelian" theory is directed toward getting people past their definitions and words, i.e., blasting a few holes in the verbal wall that stands between them and reality...
...departure of Jim Forrestal closed the door on the last Cabinet member Harry Truman inherited from Roosevelt, and one of Washington's ablest officials. Forthright Jim Forrestal had angered the Zionists, embarrassed Democratic strategists with his Wall Street background, and refused to politick for Harry Truman in the 1948 campaign...
Said Foster and Dennis: "If, despite the efforts of the peace forces of America and the world, Wall Street should succeed in plunging the world into war, we would oppose it as an unjust, aggressive, imperialist war, as an undemocratic and an anti-Socialist war, destructive of the deepest interest of the American people...
...Pyramid Friendship Club craze reached the Eastern Seaboard. New Yorkers added their own characteristic stamp: increasing the ante from $1 to $5 and guaranteeing to pay off $10,240. There were also wild rumors of a $100 Wall Street club, which was supposed to give the lucky winner a cool...
...Republican victory would mean control of the nation by Wall Street and the National Association of Manufacturers...