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...York three small stockholders filed suit demanding that a temporary receiver be appointed for the company "to prevent it from becoming insolvent." Almost simultaneously, they filed another suit against Howard Hughes, asking an accounting of "his stewardship [and] all damages caused by his mismanagement, neglect and reckless disregard of his duties" when he was boss of the big moviemaker...
What the people saw, from Hartford to Brooklyn, was Truman out-Trumaning himself. Upon Dwight Eisenhower he poured his most reckless abuse. Samples...
Passionate Voyage. In Haverhill, Mass., Winfield E. Donahue was fined $100 for reckless driving after his girl friend told police that when she refused his marriage proposal, he replied: "O.K., you asked for it," and rammed a telephone pole...
...California, Dick Nixon caught the first heckling about the fund just as his train was about to leave Marysville. "Tell us about the $16,000!" yelled a man on the fringe of the crowd. "Hold the train! Hold the train!" shouted Nixon. Then he launched into a reckless, belligerent counteroffensive, blaming the "smear" on the "Communists and the crooks in the Government," and declaring that Democratic Candidate John Sparkman has his wife on the Government payroll...
...turned to Asia with the standard Democratic formula: economic aid, land reform, resistance to armed aggression. He deplored the fact that "some men in this country seem to think that if a definitive victory [in Korea] cannot be won, we should either take reckless military action or give the whole thing up.-Such advice plays into the enemies' hands...