Word: madnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sirs: Butte, Mont. may have a book all to itself but why should anyone from there be happy about it? Natives from the "World's Richest Hill" have a good reason to be damn good and mad at the editors of TIME for the disparaging remarks cast upon their fair city when you referred to it as a wench, dissipated and uncorseted. Either term used singularly and in the mildest sense surely borders on infamy...
...real wildcat strikes could be expected from another railroad quarter. The 1,100,000 members of the 15 non-operating railroad unions (maintenance men, etc.) were just about as mad. To their demand for a 20?-an-hour wage increase, another Railway Labor panel countered with an increase of 8? an hour. By last week the "non-ops" having negotiated for 13 weary months, had not yet got up their nerve for a strike vote, had agreed to resubmit demands to a new panel...
...story that made aristocratic, long-faced Leverett Saltonstall hopping mad appeared last week in PM. Its charges: 1) that an "antiSemitic campaign of terrorism" had been under way in Boston more than a year; 2) that gangs of Christian Front, Coughlinite "marauders" roam the streets at night, breaking windows in Jewish stores and synagogues, beating Jews; 3) that authorities and Boston papers have been silent...
...favorable and laudatory is completely out of tune with their realistic attitude toward this war. . . . Our boys know we are not perfect. They know that our Allies are not perfect either. . . . The dangerous results of sugary and overdrawn propaganda should be apparent to us all. . . . Our fighting men are mad because of the false optimism of our news. . . . When suffering intensely they will hear a bland radio announcement saying 'The enemy is routed. Our losses are negligible. There is little if any enemy resistance. . . .' Greater frankness in war news presentation will prevent cynicism and lack of confidence later...
...People," said the late, large Gilbert Keith Chesterton, "have fallen into a foolish habit of speaking of orthodoxy as something heavy, humdrum, and safe. There never was anything so perilous or so exciting as orthodoxy. It was sanity: and to be sane is more dramatic than to be mad. . . . It is always easy to let the age have its head; the difficult thing is to keep...