Word: whoopla
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Dates: during 1942-1942
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Compulsory Volunteering. The U.S. thought back to the whoopla, the tormented emotions, the naked coercion of the Liberty Loan drives of World War I, and it didn't like what it remembered. Houses of non-buyers, then, were painted yellow by vigilantes. Citizens were free to buy voluntarily-provided they bought. Said Historians Charles and Mary Beard: "Whoever refused to answer the call was liable to be blacklisted by his neighbors or associates and enrolled in the Doom Book in the Department of Justice." Henry Morgenthau was not for this kind of "voluntarism"-in a nation fighting for freedom...