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...coal, steel, lumber, shipbuilding, ordnance, machinery, aviation. Even more significant for future U.S. labor relations had been the metamorphosis of the Board's own tri-partite personnel (representatives of management, labor and the public). Weighted with responsibilities, labor's own men had cracked down on many a reckless strike leader, read him the riot act. Management's men had shaken angry, executive fingers at hard-headed fellow employers. Out of one stubborn conference with employers a mediator-industrialist stamped, stormed: "Somebody ought to show those damn fools they're 40 years behind the times...
Bristled Secretary Knox: "That report is not true." Moreover, he added, it showed "a reckless disregard for the safety and lives of fellow Americans...
Said Willkie: "The campaign of 1940 is over . . . yet we seem to have a few who are trying to run a kind of out-of-season political campaign of their own. We have lately been informed that this country needs a new leader. That is reckless and misguided talk. We in America do not choose new leaders between elections. We cannot . . . have a new leadership . . . without revolution and destruction...
...This will introduce Richard Tewkesbury, a reckless stubborn young American who is ambitious to make the trip overland from the Canal to Colombia. I urge you to dissuade him from this mad adventure. If, however, he will not be discouraged, will you please give him such assistance as you reasonably...
...Zealanders with a sprinkling of British and Australians. All during the day this force rounded up German parties, disposing of all except the one threatening Malemi. The transports and gliders kept coming, at higher cost: in the daylight they were easier targets, and in their reckless disregard of expense, the Germans crash-landed many planes. As the day ended, the British claimed they had killed or captured 1,800 of the first 3,000 who landed...