Word: madnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...left when they vetoed his idea and launched the first successful U.S. newspaper syndicate himself. In 1893, on $2,800 in profits from the syndicate and a borrowed stake, McClure started his magazine. At its peak in 1906, Steffens, Tarbell, and Baker walked out after an argument with the "mad genius," and took over the rival American Magazine...
When this bill was only a mad gleam in Rankin's eye a few months ago, few people were disturbed. It looked like Rankin was just going to try to embarrass the Administration by yowping about veterans' rights in his Veterans' Affairs Committee. But the colorful statesman from Mississippi was able to ram his project through the committee--most of the members stalked out of the "hearing" in protest against the chairman's arbitrary tactics--and he was also able to bring it to the House floor on Tuesday...
...kick out of passing out some cards Brigadier General Wallace Graham had brought down from Washington. In large type the cards read: "Don't Go Away Mad." In smaller print: "Just Go Away...
...country's soft air of calm was deceptive. Like every Bavarian city and village, Munich went mad last week. While wind and snow whistled through the scarred streets and hollow buildings, along the avenues and through bright windows could be seen gaudy devils and silvery angels, Spanish ladies with black mantillas, Egyptian pharaohs in gold brocade, Hawaiian dancers in tights, bra and lei. Jazz bands blared in every cabaret and public dancehall...
...Detroit. To this Bavaria, America has brought not only snack bars and jukeboxes but also a man who is easily the most interesting ruler the country has known since mad King Ludwig II. He is Murray D. van Wagoner, onetime Michigan state commissioner of roads, onetime governor of Michigan, today governor of Bavaria. A portly, ruddy-faced man with a kind of gruff charm, Van Wagoner engages in no such lunacies as Ludwig, who built bizarre stone castles all over Bavaria, and ended his life by jumping into a lake. Van Wagoner's castles are all built...