Word: madnesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that hogs, cattle, butter, eggs were at the highest levels in four and five years. Actually the farmer was not benefiting to any large extent because last summer's Drought had either depleted his livestock or boosted the cost of his feed. Nevertheless, U. S. housewives were mad clear through, and AAA officials even admitted that any further rise in food prices might have a serious political reaction on their plans for crop control...
Just 50 years ago this coming July Pasteur first used a vaccine on a human being. It was rabies vaccine, which Pasteur administered to Joseph Meister an Alsatian child chewed by a mad dog. The boy recovered, and bacteriologists began to invent vaccines, the moment they dicovered the cause and method of transmission of a disease...
Cinemaddicts who saw Jean Cocteau's cinema. Le Sang d'un Poete (1933), will occasionally recognize in I Am Your Brother the same technique of mad imperturbability-as in the scene in which car after car drives up to the house where Julian is going to dinner; the doorman respectfully opens each door, no one emerges, the car drives on. No one says anything, no one is surprised. Oldsters may object that if this is surrealism, so is Alice in Wonderland. Surrealists may retort that in Alice there is nothing fishy...
...attack on the $4,000,000,000 Work Relief Bill. Certainly the banking bill was cleared by the White House so quickly that Governor Eccles did not have a chance to show it to the peppery little Virginia Senator in advance as he had promised. Senator Glass was hopping mad at what he considered a deliberate White House slight and took it out on Governor Eccles, accusing him of breaking his word. Governor Eccles hastily telephoned the Senator, explained that President Roosevelt had forwarded the bill sooner than expected...
...country that has taken place within the last few years. Unfortunate is the fact that the bill is being met with too little opposition from employers and that the rugged individualists have contented themselves by taking ineffectual pot shots at its provisions. Keen observers feel that in the mad political scramble the bill will be so butchered that the resulting panacea will be based on the idea, preached by Justice Brandies when he was a prophet in the wilderness, that each state should experiment with the various theories, and that "out of such experience should come the most practical answer...