Word: madness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thousands of names. Prison-camp atrocities (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) spurred preparations for punishing the guilty. What ever the shortcomings of the U.S. Regular Army brass might be, lack of esprit de corps was not among them. The war-crimes provisions of the surrender would be enforced by men raging mad at what the Japs did to fellow U.S. soldiers...
...Netherlands Government's official information service described the scene: "He called for brushes, paints and canvas. -Working with the consummate skill of a master, a painting in the very spirit of the famous 17th-Century artist slowly began to materialize. There can be no doubt that this mad genius did paint the seven pictures attributed to Vermeer...
...year-old "mad genius," slight and nervous looking, who preferred riches (his forgeries earned him $3,024,000) to fame, had avoided detection by meticulous adherence to 17th-Century materials and techniques. Some of his paints were purchased in London, others he made himself, grinding up genuine lapis lazuli for his blues, and cochineal for his reds...
...issued its ceilings on washers and household electrical appliances, a modest 7.7% increase over prewar prices. OPA also sideswiped President Hurley. It filed suit in Chicago's U.S. District Court against Hurley for violating price ceilings, asked triple damages of $150,000. Hurley said he was "damn mad," got set to fight OPA "until the cows come home." He wants OPA to retract and admit that, under the circumstances, there were no dirty dealings. Many an other appliance maker got ready to side with Hurley, turn this into a full-scale test of OPA's reconversion price policy...
Jane might well have lost her democracy then & there, if her four soldier pals had not suddenly swept to the rescue like the U.S. cavalry in a Western. In no uncertain terms they informed the mad brigadier that their common gripes and hatred of red tape had nothing whatsoever to do with dictatorship...