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...perhaps the Governor's person is so estimable in the sight of the powers that be that he will always be miraculously shielded from harm. In view of the fact that he has been involved in a long string of accidents and is notorious throughout the state for the reckless speeding of his cars, the above supposition luckily holds but small liklihood...
Sentenced to 15 days in the Los Angeles County Jail for reckless driving was reedy William Wallace Reid, 19, son of the late sporty Cinemactor Wallace Reid. Said young Reid, surprised at the sentence: "I'd earned $25 doing a high dive in an M-G-M picture, and I brought it with me. I thought I'd be fined...
...highway authorities continue to regard speed as a prime cause of highway accidents which last year took 36,400 lives, this year are likely to take more.* Put into effect in New York State as the safe drivers departed was a set of stringent new penalties for speeding or reckless driving. Sample: $100 fine for first offense, $250 for second. This promptly scared the Automobile Manufacturers Association into a formal resolution asking members to stop advertising the top speeds of their automobiles...
...Today, the Administration is spending money for almost every conceivable thing. It is spending even for the necessary things in ways we cannot afford-in reckless ways which are beyond our means-which would never appeal to any one who has had to work for his money-to any one who has had to face the problem of making both ends meet-to any one who has had to see to it that his bills get paid...
...strenuous, heart-breaking ordeal. Under a constant nervous strain, working long hours, haunted by the fear of blundering, learning that doctors were capable of alibiing themselves by blaming nurses, the girls often went to pieces, lost credit for months of work by hysterical outbursts or reckless dissipation. Belinda made her first blunder as an apprentice...