Word: madnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hollywood influence in Washington that is behind the current national "war heroes" tour to whip up our patriotism prompted the following: (I guess it was the street banners in Los Angeles reading "Welcome War Heroes, June 28" that really made me mad...
...south panel (see cut) gave a Marxist-eye-view of the history of Chile. It was dominated by a gigantic figure of the Araucanian Indian chief Galvarino, roaring and waving the stumps of his handless arms (mutilated by the Spaniards) over a group of prone Spanish soldiers, like a mad maestro leading an infernal symphony. Over his shoulders glared the faces of Revolutionists Francisco Bilbao (with beard) and Araucanian Chief Caupolican (with one blind eye). Behind them, clutching a Chilean flag, swayed the small figure of Chile's liberator, Bernardo O'Higgins. The two panels were connected...
...Anderson. Before he came to Washington he was the ace waste eliminator for American Telephone & Telegraph; now he is a thorn in the side of Army & Navy. Last week, with his big boss Don Nelson engaged in his own grapple with the services over scarce materials, Harvey Anderson was mad enough to blow...
...answers to his pregnant questions were hinted at by Maine's Republican Senator Ralph Brewster, hornet-mad over the lack of a real unified command on the Arctic front. Said he: "Naval forces in the area are commanded from Seattle, while Army units are commanded from Anchorage, Alaska. That means the two responsible officers are 2,000 miles apart." The highest ranking military man on the Alaskan scene is Major General Simon Bolivar Buckner, who controls Army operations there, but when concurrent Navy sea or air action is needed, orders must come from Vice Admiral Charles Freeman...
Drew's first blast at the commission report on June 5 led to the Government charging him with sedition. Then the Government dropped the charge, as the hottest political potato picked up in years. Still mad, Colonel Drew wrote a 32-page criticism of the commission report. He sent one copy to Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie ("Wee Willie") King, other copies to leaders of the Conservative, Cooperative Commonwealth Federation and Social Credit parties in the House of Commons. A copy also went to the Canadian press, which sent it out to member papers marked "Hold for Release...