Word: madnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Madness or Order? In the minds of many men by last week the sombre conviction had grown that their world was spinning into insanity. "A mad world, debt-burdened and bankrupt, with repudiation, disaster and chaos threatening," Publisher Roy Howard called it after a trip through the Far East. Everywhere there were symptoms of madness...
...mad or not, the world was taking sides in a mighty battle of continents. There was order in all the moves. The battle lines were now clearly drawn between free capitalism and autarchy, between the semi-democracies and the totalitarians, between what Publisher Howard called the Have Gots and the Have Nots. Against the 250,000,000 people Joachim von Ribbentrop boasted of, the British Empire and China had 959,000,000. The U. S. and South America had another 200,000,000. In resources the Have Nots were outmatched. In immediate war power they were far superior...
...rent reductions. By the city's latest survey of $49-and-under rentals, vacancies were 2% less than the norm. Fighting rent increases and non-renewal notices in all parts of the city, the tough little City-Wide Tenants Council and its 22 tenant union leagues were hornet-mad. Formed in 1936 to promote better and cheaper housing, the Council has fraternal relations with militant tenants' unions in Great Britain and Philadelphia, is a constant source of trouble to landlords. Now is its busy season for negotiating, litigating and "striking...
This is not surprising. Scholars and intellectuals generally have a peculiar propensity for going mad in war-time. Those of us who lived through the last war remember the disgraceful spectacle of learned men in all the belligerent countries of 1914-18 sustaining and idealizing a war which we now know to have been on both sides the most shameful exhibition of military imperialism in modern times. In Germany, professors were the first to proclaim the justice of the Kaiser's war, and to acclaim his invasion of Belgium and France. In England, professors made speeches, wrote articles and books...
...would be an interesting subject for a Ph.D. thesis--why professors go mad in war. Another thesis might be written on why students keep sane. In this war, at least, you boys have done just that. While the nation has been going crazy, you have remained calm. While the government has been driving us swiftly towards war, with professors laying on the lash, you have refused to be stampeded. Insistently you have maintained the dignity of education. The sanity of youth in this mad hour is perhaps the most encouraging sign of the times that this world...