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Next day soldiers policed the streets as the Communists started their funeral procession, carrying Martyr Mella's ashes in two tin-boxes. Suddenly snipers, whom the Government later branded as Communists, began a random reckless fire from the rooftops which at first crackled over the heads of the Communists and soldiers. Instantly soldiers began to fire, some kneeling and shooting directly into the Communist ranks. Only a sudden burst of tropical rain cut short what might have been a massacre, but two hours later firing began again...
...people arrive and depart. Mr. Cohan owns gold badges given him by both the New York and Chicago constabulary. A good Roman Catholic, he never denies a Catholic charity the right to produce his plays. Many an actor has popularity and self-assurance, but it is Cohan's reckless generosity which imprints on him the final hall-mark of a Broadway boy. He is the apotheosis of what the district calls "regular." When a thing is not regular, Mr. Cohan does not want to have anything to do with it. In 1919, recalling the White Rats...
...patriot may be dismayed by French Professor Faÿ's sympathetic disclosure of the public goings-on of Franklin's favorite (legitimate) grandson, Benjamin Franklin Bache. Few U. S. schoolboys have ever heard of Benny Bache, whom Biographer Faÿ describes as "the most outspoken, the most reckless, the most generous, and the most neglected" figure of his day. In this authoritative but racily written biography Author Faÿ takes the lid off a period of U. S. history that has long been simmering in academic ovens, dishes it up with spicy Gallic sauce...
...Pacific's tracks near Tucumcari, N. M., had killed eight, injured 40 (TIME, Sept. 4 ). Both wrecks were due to sudden storms, could be set down as acts of God. But last week's Erie smash-up was the kind that all railroad men most deplore-the reckless failure of man power. After dusk the Atlantic Express (No. 8) pulled out of the Binghamton station on its way from Chicago to Jersey City. All of its eight cars were of heavy steel except the third from the rear, an oldfashioned wooden coach full of Binghamton commuters and Erie...
...Sound. Elephant beaten with candy and little pops and chews all bolts and reckless rats, this is this...