Word: madnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mad as hops, Committee Chairman Frederick Van Nuys demanded explanations from Censor Price: How come such snooping? Why was not Congress informed? Calmly the witnesses explained: their authority to censor territorial mail stemmed from the President's constitutional powers. They told their spy stories, soothed ruffled tempers...
...soldiers-the persisting tendency to seek an easy war-troubles him. In a nationwide broadcast last month to the troops in his home command, he said: "There is no doubt that Americans can and will fight; when aroused they are brave in battle. You are going to get killing mad eventually; why not now, while you have time to learn thoroughly the art of killing. Soldiers learn quickly and well in battle . . . but the method is costly to both you and the nation...
...mistake. It has been spread by: 1) word-of-mouth recommendation; 2) practical jokers who leave messages for their friends to call his number. Even the latter sometimes get so interested that when the operator asks for another nickel, they put it in. For those others who get mad and tell him to go to the devil, Pastor Hall has a ready reply: "I can't go with you, I'm going the other...
...Henderson, what makes Congress so mad...
...grounds of Missouri's Capitol at Jefferson City repose three old cannon from bygone wars. Every time that Ralph Coghlan, a ruddy, owlish man who breathes fire and snorts the editorial page of the famed St. Louis Post-Dispatch, thought about them it made him mad. He thought they belonged on the nation's scrap pile. But Missouri's earnest, toothy Governor Forrest C. Donnell said he could not prove that the State owned the cannon, therefore could not give them away. This made Ralph Coghlan even madder...