Word: smokescreen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sure we'll win-otherwise we wouldn't have brought all this before the grand jury. This is the first criminal indictment ever returned against Bridges." Harry Bridges, a noisy foe of the Truman Administration, had his own theory about the charges: "A smokescreen to get people's attention away from what's happening in Washington...
...acceptable job in these fields. So it is up to the Government--which is already socialistically entrenched in the Columbia Valley--to do its work better through the medium of an independent agency like the CVA. If the Eighty-First Congress manages to break through the power-lobby smokescreen to pass the CVA bill, it will have something, at least, to be proud of, regardless of the rest of its legislative record...
...bills were a smokescreen to take people's minds off unemployment and high utility rates," he added, pointing out that if he had his way he would make all investigators and bill passers take and pass examinations on Marxism, communism, and modern history...
Official union leaders at the meeting wanted the ship to sail. Murphy's immediate demands (for more representation from the rank & file at union negotiations) were only a smokescreen for his major aim: to hold the Mary at Southampton for at least a day, regardless of the cost. If he could do that, he might inject some hope into the fading Merseyside strike...
...Comunist menace in this country, Wallace declared, is a "smokescreen" obscuring "policies and actions which will bring depression, war, and an American brand of fascism...