Word: madnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...really don't object to being called William M. Flook, Jr. '46, but when in the same paragraph you call the Network the Netwirk, I start getting mad and demanding a printed apology. William M. Flook, Jr. '44 President, Harvard Crimson Network...
...Columnist John O'Donnell in the New York Daily News, had received national publicity for implying immorality in the WAACs. (O'Donnell asserted that contraceptives were to be issued to the Corps.) Generally, the U.S. knew its newspapers had patriotically backed the WAACs. Everyone went away mad...
...Monroe, host of the briefly renowned Red House on R Street (TIME, May 17), slapped a $1,000,000 libel suit on him, another for $350,000 on the Washington Post, which published the special Pearson article, for defamation of character. Meanwhile a posse of anti-Fourth Term Senators, mad enough to slap him with something else, contented themselves with giving the lie to another Pearson story...
Congress' Answer. In the general House revolt the little understood question of subsidies had become a rallying cry. This puzzled citizens who had not watched the fight closely. Why did the idea of sub sidies, successful in Britain, make Congress so mad...
...mustached Liverpool shipowner Major Leonard Cripps, taller, elder brother of tall Sir Stafford Cripps, waved away midsummer heat with his handkerchief, waved away his brother's socialistic notions as well. Of his brother, Social Security Planner Beveridge and their "sentimental" followers, the Major remarked: "In the country of mad hatters, I mean Britain, they're destroying civilization by giving away all this blasted money...