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Spruance has since been criticized by some venturesome tacticians for not chasing down the scattered Jap survivors. The record will some day show whether the criticism is justified. The Japs were spread to the four winds over a wide and smoky ocean. A reckless excursion into enemy waters might have undone the victory. The defense of the whole Pacific depended then on the handful of ships in Spruance's command. He had to preserve them, and he did. Right or wrong, that was the way he calculated when he retired...
States' Rights is a worn-out issue, a relic. The answer to "the present Administration's arbitrary use of vast authority . . . the inefficiencies and reckless extravagances . . . lies not in a weakened central government." The answer lies in government administered under law, substituted for government "by caprice...
Hero Youree was sentenced to be cashiered as an example to youngster airmen who are tempted to reckless flying. He was convicted at his station at the Ardmore, Okla. Army airfield of flying too close to a Braniff airliner and scaring the daylights out of its 21 passengers...
Angry Irish voices filled the lecture theater of Dublin's handsome, wide-flung Leinster House. Honorable red-faced members of the Dail Eireann threw "reckless," "irresponsible," "pique and petulance" at the bowed head of astute, unbowed Prime Minister Eamon de Valera, crouched on his shiny, mahogany front-row seat. De Valera had just tripped an unwary Dail into an unwanted general election, the second within a year...
...Hatfields and McCoys (". . . they wuz reckless mountain boys . . .") were discovered by American Magazine to be feuding no more.† Rooming together and working at a Maryland war plant June Hatfield, great-granddaughter of Clan Leader "Devil Anse" Hatfield, and Susie McCoy, great-granddaughter of Clan Leader Randall McCoy. They visit each other's families without resort to arms, and June plans to marry a real McCoy some...