Word: madnesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mad as a mother accused of starving her children so she could buy herself new dresses, Governor John W. Bricker of Ohio last week called the whole thing a lie, invited the gossips to mind their own business...
...Finns were suddenly pictured as dreaming "dreams of aggression." The Finnish Government became "marionettes chained to the hounds and incendiaries of war," a "gang of hired bandits of capitalism," "bestial murderers mad with their savage dreams of a Greater Finland up to the Urals...
Arrested in Miami, Fla. by immigration authorities for overstaying her leave in the U. S. was Mme Maria Gregorievna Rasputin Soloviev, animal-taming daughter of murdered Grigoriy Rasputin,* the "Mad Monk," spiritual adviser to the late Tsarina of Russia...
Hypercompetitive, bubble-riding, style-mad is the $100,000,000 U. S. millinery industry. The Federal Trade Commission last week published a study of its scrambled distribution methods. Prime thesis of the report: chain and syndicate distributors (who combine the functions of wholesaler and retailer) handle close to half of the total trade, are not the pirates that manufacturing milliners think them: "With a better understanding the manufacturer will come to realize that he has not been the victim of oppression by the syndicate...
...flaunted an announcement: "WARNING: Any person throwing mud at this poster will not be prosecuted." The poster advertised a new thriller: The Kaiser, Beast of Berlin. Inside the theatre, girl ushers, togged out as Belgian peasants, distributed programs which promised "an amazing expose of the intimate life of the Mad Dog of Europe." The picture did not quite live up to the promise. It described the hardships and eventual victory of the conquered Belgians. Hero was the original Tarzan, big, soft-looking Elmo Lincoln, playing a blacksmith into whose custody the captured Kaiser (Rupert Julian) was given after...