Word: madnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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FOLDED, JUST AS IMPUDENT AS YOU PLEASE. THERE WAS SOMETHING ABOUT HIS ATTITUDE THAT JUST GOT ME. . . . "I WASN'T MAD, OR ANYTHING-JUST DEFIANT. I THOUGHT TO MYSELF...
...Edwin Palmer) Hoyt had changed the raucous Denver Post from a brawling journalistic hussy to a newspaper (TIME, Feb. 18). Facing his staff the first day on the job, he looked at his watch, announced that, from that moment, the common scold of Champa Street "ain't mad at nobody." By last week, having cleaned house on Champa Street, he got set to move the Post from its squat, gaudy old building. The Post bought the Home Public Market and an adjoining five-story office building, ordered 24 new high-speed presses. Hoyt announced his goal: to make...
...from past faith in the efficacy of olive drab uniforms and bayonetted rifles, would consider natural. Instead of calling the men back into the driver's seat, the truckers felt disposed to shout "Blacklegs!" at the Tommies who were learning a new twist to the King's service. Hopping mad, the Union began bellowing for a general strike to end the "betrayal" by its own national leaders, voting at the same time to keep away from the garages. The strike finally ended only when employers managed to crawl out of their dugouts and reportedly offered to give in. Troops...
Thibaud is gloomily sure that the great Cortot-Thibaud-Casals trio will never play together again. "I have not been very lucky with my fellows," says he. "They have become politician. Cortot very bad, Casals a little mad...
When the U.S. slammed the door on Mexican cattle imports last June, Mexicans were hopping mad. Nonsense, they said; those fine Brahma bulls (which they had imported from Brazil) did not have foot & mouth disease. But the bulls did carry the dread disease, and Mexican herds in four central states and the Federal District were infected. Last week, energetic President Aleman set in motion a $40 million, three-month campaign to smash the epidemic. Emergency squads prepared to slaughter and cremate as many as a million head of cattle-one-tenth of Mexico's herds...