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...Rotten . . . Reckless." Most recent case involved the Tribune and the Sun. For days, workers at Chicago's Studebaker aircraft-engine plant had been targets of a Tribune tirade, charging that they were loafers, malingerers and gamblers and that their union leaders were Communists deliberately sabotaging production...
...movement has been led by a determined and reckless group in the Episcopal Church who want to have their way at any cost...
...aviation's wartime boom has brought an alarming growth of reckless flying-some of it by pilots too young to know better, some by veterans too skilled to give a damn. So long as a flyer lets off steam somewhere by himself, with plenty of room, the possible results are of primary interest only to his commander, the crash-wagon crew and the next...
...prison. But the worst "fooling" accident yet was at Palm Springs, Calif., last October, when nine passengers and the crew of three died in the crash of an American airliner clipped in flight by an Army Lockheed B34. CAB investigated the crash, reported that the "probable" cause was the "reckless and irresponsible conduct of Lieut. William N. Wilson in deliberately maneuvering a bomber in dangerous proximity to the airliner in an unjustifiable attempt to attract the attention of the first officer [copilot] of the latter plane." The Army promptly court-martialed Lieut. Wilson, just as promptly acquitted...
...Convict Water C. Huff, 21, serving a year for reckless driving, testified: "I came here with two other boys and after Captain Clay took off my handcuffs ... he busted me in the mouth with his fist and my teeth are loose now. Big Jim kicked us and put two picks on us. Captain Clay . . . then took us back to the little house in front of the pigpen and beat me up. He made me bend over the bed and he let loose. ... I was so sore I had to lay on my stomach. . . . The beating was on Sunday...