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Depression-born, the New Deal, haunted by overproduction and "reckless" past expansion, could hardly be expected to put much stress on speeding up the growth of the economy as a whole. The New Deal, operating on the assumption that the economy was maturing, stressed the struggle between classes for a bigger piece of a limited pie. It took up the cudgels for the "have-nots," believing that an ever-larger Government was needed to overpower what Harry Truman loved to call "the special interests." Eisenhower's 1956 Economic Report assumes an ever-expanding pie. From that assumption it derives...
...vexing and dangerous practical problems of the Middle East are also, especially for Britain and the U.S., problems of moral responsibility. The Arab-Israel quarrel, for instance, is directly traceable to reckless and selfish past U.S. and British deeds and omissions in that region. Responsibility for solutions must rest largely in an agreement between Britain and the U.S. on how to make Arabs and Israelis stop the fighting and begin the stabilization of the area. No doubt the forms of solution will require hard, technical, diplomatic work. But nothing will come of technical gimmicks in this or any other area...
...stronger language. He insisted that interposition implied 1) a state's right to nullify federal laws, 2) a state governor's right to call out state forces to defend states' rights. "Without these essential provisions," said Griffin, "there is no interposition." But Griffin's reckless bluster was not yet the tone of the South's leaders. The other three governors reflected the painful tension that racks serious Southerners who are unable to face the prospect of desegregation and who are reluctant to defy the authority of the U.S. The case of South Carolina...
...Getter. In Fond du Lac, Wis., fined $65 for reckless driving, Gerald W. Oelerich was tagged an additional $10 for contempt after he interrupted court proceedings to ask the judge: "You wouldn't lend me the money, would you, Your Honor...
...driver of the truck admitted that the accident was his fault; he was indicted for involuntary manslaughter and reckless driving...