Word: madnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...picture in the April 14 issue of TIME showing eight labor mad dogs beating one worker must have stirred the blood of every person who saw it. The wielder of what appears to be an iron rod [it was a child's baseball bat-ED.] seems to be aiming for the victim's spinal column with a blow backed by all his strength...
Toward the end of last summer Brigadier General Holland McTyeire ("Howlin' Mad") Smith of the Marines, an impatient man in any weather, almost came to a boil. Chunky General Smith wanted to take his First Brigade of Marines for needed training in the outposts of the Caribbean, where they might later see action. Yet somebody in Washington demurred. Reason: there was no housing for troops near Guantanamo, on the southeast coast of Cuba, where General Smith proposed to set up training headquarters...
Howlin' Mad finally went to Washington to see his boss, chunky Major General Holcomb, commandant of the Corps. Tommy Holcomb heard General Smith's lava-like flow of words, told him to go ahead. Last October, the First Brigade, 3,000 strong, heaved its seabags aboard the transport Barnett at Norfolk and shoved off. Last week the last units of the outfit came back. It was now the First Division, U.S.M.C., more than 8,000 strong, and Howlin' Mad, ruddier than ever, had the two stars of a major general on his shoulder straps. He also...
Howlin' Mad worked his men from 5:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., seven days a week. No hands were excused from work. They cleared 500 acres, cleaned out underbrush at the rate of an acre every 20 minutes. When building began, smart Marine sergeants discovered a construction genius in the uniform of a private, first-class. He was put in charge, bossed sergeants along with the rest. Said Howlin' Mad of this uncanonical procedure: "He just had a hell of a knack for building things." Prize building achievement was a mess hall. The first concrete was poured...
...Mad Russian," a famous juggler from the Ringling Brothers, Barnum and Bailey Circus, whom John Ringling North terms, "by far the best juggler I have ever seen," will also perform. According to Austin Mason, Jr., chairman of the committee arranging the evening, there will be several other equally well-known entertainers...