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...week on a month's tour of the West to cultivate goodwill for NRA, he resolved to be on his best behavior. At Waterloo, Iowa he delivered his first speech (see p. 12). It was one of the most conciliatory, public utterances he had made in months. Curbing his reckless Johnsonese, he did not say that all his opponents were chiselers, did not claim that NRA was responsible for all recovery to date. And in opening his remarks he even put in a word of understanding for the newspaper publishers who battled him tooth and claw to get freedom...
Knight of the Golden Fleece, onetime vice president of Imperial Austria's Upper House, a Colonel-General of Cavalry so reckless of his own safety that he was wounded four times in the War. the Prince has a long record of gallantry. But to Viennese that record means nothing compared to the day, month ago, when unarmed and unguarded he walked into the Socialist lines smiling like a kindly grand father to tell sullen crowds: "I am Schonburg. . . . Now do drop this game like sensible people and go home...
...Prefect of Police he became the complete boulevardier. From his little office on the Ile de la Cité with its hideous blue wallpaper he started a slashing campaign against reckless taxi drivers and the vendors of filthy pictures. He calls everyone either mon petit or mon enfant, wears made-to-order shoes with two-inch heels and has won the adoration of the uniformed force. He has also become very rich, owns a chateau and a racing stable...
...causes of the poor showing on Wednesday night was the reckless abuse of the foul rule by the Crimson, Harvard committed 21 fouls...
...Nashville, Tenn., a magistrate levied a $2 fine for reckless driving against Franklin D. Roosevelt, Negro...