Word: madnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...twas like turning the knife in the wound when you gave out with "Good Morning, Navy Dear." We write this at 0615 one morning while still mad, but we in Mellon know youse guys is really swell people, so we humbly suggest reveille calls inside the dorms instead of in the alley, and musters back of Glass Hall before 0700. Thanks, Army, for hearin' our gripe...
...before, shock-haired Novelist Louis Bromneld, owner of a 1,100-acre Ohio farm, had become so incensed before the dairymen that he tore up his prepared speech, roared: "Since preparing that speech, I have read a vast amount of nonsense about the food crisis. I am tearing mad. . . . They haven't any real farm policy down there in Washington. One word can describe the one big mess they've made: 'Bedlam...
Shrewd, New Deal-hating Howard W. Smith, Virginia Democrat, author of a dozen anti-labor bills, warned: "This inflation threat is so dangerous, so imminent that I do not think we should burn this bridge down because we are mad at somebody." Representative Wright Patman of Texas counseled: "Remember that in Russia milk costs $7 a half pint, butter $70 a pound, a suit of clothes $450." The House, heedless, swept on. After months of inaction the members wanted to seize this first clear chance to smash at the Administration. Anti-Administration Democrats and Republicans alike joined...
Mostly they are those who died in the Jap's mad fanatical rush of Saturday and Sunday. Many are horribly mangled by bayonets and rifle butts. Many were obviously shot and killed, then stabbed time after time by the strange little yellow men who then proceeded to die, as violently as possible, sometimes by their own hands...
Washington reporters, hamstrung by Army & Navy censorship, trussed by red tape, and generally sunk by OWI's own inability to break out the news, were spluttering mad...