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...This was not a race riot. There was no conflict between groups of our citizens. What happened was the thoughtless, criminal acts of hoodlums, reckless, irresponsible people. Shame has come to our city, and sorrow...
Domestic Scene. In Chicago, Colton Ankebrant, testifying in a reckless-driving case ten days after a car had crashed into his house, replied to the judge's query on the car's whereabouts: "Oh, it's still in the parlor. But it doesn't bother us much...
Shortly before his death Brigadier General Hugh ("Iron Pants") Johnson made a prophecy about his friend Major General George Smith ("Old Blood and Guts") Patton Jr.: "Critics say he is reckless and impetuous. That's what was said at West Point. He says he is going to command an army. My bet is on Georgie Patton." Georgie Patton became a lieutenant general a fortnight ago. Last week he took command of the central sector in Tunisia, where U.S. troops got an ignominious licking a month ago. Patton celebrated his appointment by advancing...
...staggering, his speech slurred and he was quite talkative. His eyes and pupils were dilated. He admitted having been drinking." Both papers clamored for justice; Beverly Hills' Police Chief C. H. Anderson was quoted: "We are determined to protect the streets of this community against intoxicated and reckless drivers. The Mankiewicz case seems like a flagrant one, and we are determined that it shall be justly handled...
...After the Stalingrad defeat, Hitler's personal popularity for the first time spiraled downward with Nazi Party prestige. His promise of victory at Stalingrad was too recent and too wrong for even propaganda-hammered Germans to forget; Germans said that Hitler's appointment of reckless "Party Generals" assured the Stalingrad catastrophe...