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...hundred thousand Indians surrounded the funeral pyre of Martyr Motilal Nehru when it was presently set up at Allahabad, at the junction of the Jumna and the Holy River Ganges. The calm and temperate dead man's fiery and reckless son, Pandit Jawarhalal Nehru, was present with Afflatus Gandhi when the pyre was lighted. "I said to him not long before he died," Gandhi told the multitude, " 'My dear friend, we will surely win home rule, if you survive this crisis.' "He replied, 'Why, you've already won home rule!' ': In the excitement...
...order that the really reckless driver may be apprehended certain indicated speeds are given for various districts. Speeds in excess of those indicated do not warrant arrest but if in so driving the operator violates any of the laws of the road, as for example crowding, or otherwise endangers or collides with any person or property, he is subject to arrest and will be much more severely punished than if the violation were at a lower speed. In other words in the new rule speed is not an offense in itself but is used as a measure of the seriousness...
...submitted to the family decision that she must marry her cousin Antoine, madly in love with her since the awkward age. Marriage with Antoine was a disappointment to romantic Minne. She took to experimenting with lovers. But they all left her cold. Her increasing despair made her reckless, roused Antoine's suspicions; it began to look as if their marriage would be a mess. In time's nick Antoine persuaded her to go with him to Monte Carlo for a fortnight. There the miracle occurred: Minne and Antoine found they were not so mismated after...
...years these same rail executives had been fighting a stockmarket battle for possession of subsidiary roads as part of their trunk systems, had been snatching at all independent trackage in the country's rail territory to keep it out of their rival's hands. So bitter and reckless had become their operations that the Interstate Commerce Commission had cried out in loud protest while the Senate had passed a resolution to suspend temporarily all mergers. It was last autumn that President Hoover secretly set them to negotiating again with the result that last week they peacefully divided...
...Reckless Woman. Youthful Mrs. Jessie Maud Keith-Miller, famed for her 1927 co-flight from England to Australia, wanted to "put myself over as a commercial pilot" by showing she could fly a "rotten" plane as well as a good one. In a rebuilt Eaglerock Bullet which she called an "unairworthy crate rescued from the junkpile," devoid even of a turn-&- bank indicator, she flew solo last fortnight from Pittsburgh to Havana. Despite a 30-m.p.h. wind, despite her own admitted fright and premonition of failure, she took off last week from Havana to return across the Gulf. She never...