Word: madness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington had known that white-haired Leo Thomas Crowley, boss of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and the Foreign Economic Administration, would step out of the Government as soon as he considered his war duties done. Last week he stepped out, calm, neat and precise as ever-but hopping mad...
...them got bawled out on occasion; all of them learned to fear the crooked forefinger Henry Stimson shook at them when he was mad. All down the military line, the old Secretary demanded performance and got it. Before he was through, it was the greatest Army on earth, and as he always knew it would...
Empey bore this routine patiently, so long as the war was on, and even for a few days after the peace. Then one day he got mad. If Admiral Nimitz could list warships in Tokyo Bay, he said, William Empey could list merchant ships in San Francisco Bay. First Empey asked permission of the Office of Censorship, was told the office had been "abolished." Empey tried the War Shipping Administration, got a flat "no." The Guide-printed the list of ships anyway...
...Mechanized farming, wilful waste and modern youth's snobbish contempt for the land are reducing the American countryman to the same degenerate level as the city dweller, i.e., a soulless, luxury-mad "parasite on the good earth" who wanders through life "with a kindly, moronic smile of self satisfaction...
Moscow started the name-calling. Moscow was good & mad at Michael. In asking the Big Three to help set up a representative Rumanian Government in place of Premier Peter Groza's Communist-controlled Cabinet, Michael had stepped on a tender Kremlin corn...