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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.

 
NUMBER: 625
AUTHOR: Clare Boothe Luce (1903–87)
QUOTATION: But much of what Mr. Wallace calls his global thinking is, no matter how you slice it, still “globaloney.” Mr. Wallace’s warp of sense and his woof of nonsense is very tricky cloth out of which to cut the pattern of a post-war world.
ATTRIBUTION: Representative CLARE BOOTHE LUCE, remarks in the House, February 9, 1943, Congressional Record, vol. 89, p. 761.

It was in her maiden speech in the House that Mrs. Luce coined the term globaloney to describe then Vice President Henry Wallace’s post-war theories.
SUBJECTS: Foreign policy