Word: mad
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bureaucracy Gone Mad?" During World War I there were five secret sessions of the House of Commons, and years afterward it leaked out that at the first of these Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith was heckled to the verge of resigning, until he promised there would be no conscription of married men such as was later carried out under David Lloyd George and is commonplace today. Another leak revealed that Mr. Asquith was asked if Ignatius Timothy Trebitsch-Lincoln M. P. was a spy. No action was taken at the time, but this shady character decided to emigrate at once...
There were no leaks last week, but before the secret session began Laborites and Liberals said freely that they were going to raise the major issue of whether the Ministry of Supply under Leslie Burgin is a "bureaucracy gone mad," as charged by Socialist Arthur Greenwood, Deputy Leader of the Labor Party, which would like to get all British industry nationalized as a war measure. It was also intended to ask His Majesty's Government why thousands of miners are still jobless despite a coal shortage, and, finally, why the colossal rearmament program has not yet absorbed...
What made the Governor mad were the outspoken criticisms of New York City's Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, Interior Secretary Ickes, President Roosevelt-who, without naming names, charged that Ohio's State Government was responsible for Cleveland's scandalous relief situation (TIME...
...hills of the valley, one can see the carcasses of their animals rotting and the bones of their horses whitening in the sun. The Chinese peasants who were impressed to take their places were driven forward with the same pitiless fury until they collapsed, died, or were driven mad...
...Moroccan slipped up to the captain and made a rapid report in Arabic." His patrol had grenaded a German patrol. About midnight a rocket shell cast a bluish-white light on the German ridge. " 'Ah,' said the French officer, 'you see, the Boches are mad. One of their patrols did not return on schedule, so they are showing the way home. It is probably the group with the wounded...