Word: madder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Colonel John Monroe ("Steamboat") Johnson, director of the Office of Defense Transportation, pushed his way through the milling mob jampacking the lobby of Chicago's Hotel Stevens. The farther he had to push, the madder he got; almost everyone he bumped was wearing some convention badge. Near the crowded elevators, his eye fell on the long list of conventions and meetings on the bulletin board. This was more than ODT's boss could bear. He roared: "There are more damn conventions in Chicago this week than there should be in the entire country...
Square-jawed Kent Cooper, executive director of the Associated Press, got madder & madder. For nearly two weeks the A.P. had been waiting for a sizable beat from Bari, Italy: Correspondent Joseph Morton's story of a question & answer interview-by-letter with Yugoslavia's Communist Marshal Josip Broz (Tito). But the story was squashed under the political censorship of 224-lb. General Sir Henry Maitland ("Jumbo") Wilson's Mediterranean command...
...bully. The democratic, pro-Allied masses lack leadership but they are showing increasing resentment. But democratic Argentines do not expect a democratic uprising soon. They tell each other that the country is too prosperous, too well-fed. They wryly acknowledge that they will have to get a good deal madder before they find leaders...
Reuters, the British news agency, was deeper in the black books of the U.S. press than it had ever been before. And that was saying something. OWI's Elmer Davis was madder than he had ever been, but apparently just as helpless...
Nebraska's plodding Republican Senator Hugh Butler traveled 20.000 miles through Latin America on his own purse last summer, getting madder at the New Deal's Good Neighborliness at every mile. Last week he made two reports to the U.S., one in Reader's Digest ("Our Deep Dark Secrets in Latin America"), the other, a 176-page message to the Senate...