Word: mad
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Democratic Leader Sam Rayburn got so mad he accused Republicans, with apparent accuracy, of balking "just because he happens to be Franklin D. Roosevelt." The losing vote was 229-to-139, 49 short of two-thirds. The bill had to go back for rerouting through the Rules Committee...
...dictators' press got raving mad last week at France and Great Britain. Usually such pre-arranged fits of anger spring from some positive antitotalitarian act, such as France's ordering more warplanes from the U. S., Britain's guaranteeing another country's security, Poland's refusal to give up Danzig. What pained Germany and Italy this time, however, was French and British indifference at the German-Italian military alliance (TIME, May 15), which Count Galeazzo Ciano and Joachim von Ribbentrop ceremoniously signed at Berlin...
...cold feet about Pat Reed's story, showed it to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, was "requested" not to broadcast it. Mad as hops was Pat Reed, who had expected to turn an honest penny with his radio yarn. Said he: "NBC is controlled by the Government anyway...
...husband to boot. If Nicky gets his nick, it will be the deepest cut in Hollywood's hide since Russian Princess [rina Alexandrovna Youssoupov, whose Brother helped murder Rasputin, got an estimated $750,000 from M-G-M because a "Princess Natasha" was shown being assaulted by the Mad Monk in Rasputin and the Empress six years...
Lieut. General Robert H. Haining, commander of the British forces in Palestine, mustered 15,000 troops, 7.300 policemen, and 700 aviators to counter the expected Jewish reaction. Jews have spilled little blood in retaliation for Arab terrorism, but the British "betrayal" made many of them fighting mad. Indignant manifestoes were loudly cheered at mass meetings: "Palestine Jewry declares this betrayal policy will never materialize. Palestine Jewry will fight it with all its forces." In Jerusalem 5,000 demonstrators armed with stones battled club-swinging police. Toll: 135 Jews and five constables injured; one constable killed. Most Jews regretted the actions...