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...place two men in his sub-cabinet, Franklin Roosevelt last week had to tread on some good New Deal toes: 1) To the pain of trust-hating disciples of Felix Frankfurter, Assistant Secretary of Commerce John Dickinson, able young lawyer but no reckless reformer, became Assistant Attorney General, in charge of anti-trust prosecutions to bolster Attorney General Cummings' shaky legal staff. 2) To the suppressed displeasure of Secretary Ickes, Charles West, Presidential contact-man with Congress, was made Undersecretary of the Interior...
After running down a woman in his car, Hiroshi Mitsui, 22, younger brother of the head of one of Japan's rich, famed Mitsui family's eleven branches, was lodged over night in the Bridgeport, Conn. jail, released next morning on $1,000 bail charged with reckless driving...
...reckless bohemian in his early manhood. Hearn had declared his acceptance of paganism as a way of life, and had frequently expressed his distaste for U. S. civilization, for "all that is energetic, swift, rapid ... all competition, rivalry, all striving in the race for success"; had characterized New York as a monstrous "city walled up to the sky and roaring like the sea." Since his death in 1904 the legend has grown that he was a writer whose great natural gifts were frustrated, that his slight and graceful essays are no true indication of his stature. Critics w?ho believe...
...Whitney fortune expresses itself in directions which are urbane, sporting, adventurous, without being reckless, and which betray efficient and complex sophistication. The interest which most Whitneys have in common is horse-racing. Theirs is the most important name on the U. S. turf but their stables are at once so well-managed and so large that a sport which is economically ruinous for people who attempt it less elaborately costs them almost nothing. Without being either dilettantes or intellectuals, Whitneys are rarely averse to making money or spending it on enterprises connected with the arts. Without being extravagant or foolhardy...
...legal command. Counsel Richberg's gist: "If 1,000 automobiles are obstructing traffic, it isn't necessary to prove conspiracy in order to produce order by putting traffic in lanes. That is the regimentation which we have heard so much about. If it were not for regimentation, reckless drivers would make traffic impossible. It is regimentation which brings order out of chaos and protects essential liberties...