Word: madnesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...allowed to peddle his insurance under the pretext that he is a local man. It may not be in restraint of trade but it certainly gives a lot of people a chance to work a little graft. It never helps the town because a lot of the inhabitants get mad and buy from other places...
...this makes the Vagabond mad...
When the Supreme Court is inconsiderate enough to hand down some pretty important decisions on the same day as an unusually "sex-mad" crime occurs, the first page is somewhat crowded. Page three does pretty well, though, aside from one extremely small, nondescript single column cut labelled "Model in Street Clothes...
Main character in Producer Kassler's Golem is not the Golem but Emperor Rudolph (Harry Baur). Half-mad, bullied by his Prime Minister and harried by his mistress (Germaine Aussey), he has a fixation about the Golem, wants it destroyed. Prague's persecuted Jews are equally determined to preserve it. Rabbi Loew is dead but his successor, Rabbi Jacob, knows the formula for bringing the Golem to life, tells it to his wife. The Golem is not disturbed until most of Prague's Jews have been tossed into the lion pit in the Emperor's dungeons...
Presiding at the I. R. R. C. meeting in London last week, as he did fortnight ago at the International Tin Committee meeting which lifted tin production quotas to 110% of 1929 levels without abating a mad metal market (TIME, March 22), was precise Sir John Campbell, economic and financial adviser to the British Colonial Office. Whatever Sir John's first considerations were as he walked into the highceilinged committee room in Brettenham House next to Waterloo Bridge, the problem at hand was essentially one of trying to keep skyrocketing rubber prices from knobbling the British armament race without...