Word: crackpots
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lepers, slumdwellers and downtrodden tribesmen look upon Scott as a saint. Those white men in South Africa who believe that blacks are subhuman hewers of wood and drawers of water call him a crackpot...
...Military College near Natchez, Miss., the money was still rolling in. It came, largely in five-and ten-dollar bills, from people all over the U.S. who wrote to applaud the 147-year-old prep school for turning down Oilman George W. Armstrong's proposed endowment with a crackpot list of "white supremacy" strings attached (TIME, Nov. 7). Last week, with $9,314 in the till from well-wishers, Jefferson had enlisted a special fundraiser. He was Vice Admiral Aaron Stanton ("Tip") Merrill, a Pacific task force commander in World War II and onetime chief of Navy public relations...
...diehard elements among employers, or they could be Communist or fascist agents." Michigan Senators Arthur Vandenberg and Homer Ferguson guessed that it was the Communists (the party hotly denied it), got the U.S. Senate to call for FBI investigation. Others guessed that it might be the work of some crackpot, either anti-union or a U.A.W. man soured by bitter fights within the union...
Visitors are not the Clinic's only problem. It also has to deal with all the crackpot mail that comes into the University. A couple of years ago an excited gentleman wrote in to report the discovery of 'the greatest psychological phenomena extant." He had discovered, he said, that he was being pursued by a group of tormentors with the "astounding, unheard of, utterly unbelievable occult powers" of projecting their voices like radio transmitters. It was quite a discovery, but the Clinic reaped the reward. That gentleman's case history is now required reading in a large psychology course...
...three weeks ago, then from other states. The sender, whoever he was, gave the stunt a chain-letter twist by urging "dear miss" to send copies to five or six other "innocent and unsuspecting young people." Who in Seattle had it in for the U.S. public-school system? A crackpot, was one likely answer. Mrs. Pearl A. Wanamaker, superintendent of public instruction for the state of Washington, thought that too much time and too many postage stamps were involved; it sounded more like Communists to her. Last week the National Education Association asked the FBI to find...