Word: madnesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Most Reverend Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury. "Mediation? Who can undertake the task?" he asked. "It would be a great thing if the leading European powers would attempt it, but this might lead only to dissension among themselves. . . . 'Disquieting signs that the world seems to be going mad have come from this horrible civil war in Spain...
...convention of anti-Roosevelt "Goober Democrats" at Macon last winter (TIME, April 27). "Sure, I helped raise the taxes," cried the tax-raising Senator. "We raised 'em on Gene's friends, the Raskobs and the du Fonts and that's why he's mad...
...Hopping mad, noncancelable policyholders and a group of stockholders rushed into the court of Superior Judge Henry M. Willis, to whom the case had been transferred. Making no secret of their suspicions, policyholders charged that, as late as the first of this year, false financial statements had been issued showing Pacific Mutual $10,000,000 in the black when there was actually a deficit of more than twice that amount, that Amadeo Peter Giannini's Occidental Life Insurance Co. had offered to buy the company for $10,000,000, and keep all policies in force, although Commissioner Carpenter...
Thus last week Berlin considered that Washington had acted with intolerable presumption, and Dr. Schacht, fighting mad, was reported to have exclaimed, "They mean to kill our trade with them? All right, let's kill their trade with us! Afterward we can build it up again on a new basis...
...persons bitten by mad dogs in England in one year, 148 contracted rabies and died. Mortality...