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...from the Government because the period of presumption had run against them. As their numbers grew, politicians became interested in them. Demand for an oldfashioned pension system which would care for these disabled in civil as well as military life arose. Last April the House in a reckless mood passed a bill to advance the date of presumption of World War disability to Jan. 1, 1930 (TIME, May 5). Fortnight ago the Senate passed (66-to-6) the same bill over the protests of President Hoover, Secretary Mellon and General Hines, director of the Veterans' Bureau. Theoretically the measure...
...Ancient Clubhouse to clear the 18th fairway for the final hole, and each of these times the mob had come over in response to the news that Jones was in danger. The first time was when Jones was playing big Cyril Tolley, last year's British amateur champion, reckless, huge-shouldered, one of the longest drivers in the world. They were all even at the turn. They won holes almost in alternation to the 18th. Both were slipshod around the green and unsure in the pits, with Tolley driving farther and hitting the ball harder, but taking many chances...
...Keith's--"Born Reckless". Edmund Loew rants through the underworld...
University teams set a new record for losses Saturday. Princeton lost three out of three baseball games, two out of two track meets, one out of two lacrosse matches, and two out of three tennis contests. Tiger oarsmen bowed to Yale in three out of four crew races. With reckless indifference to the virtues of conformity, the golfers won from Brown and Williams, and the Freshmen triumphed in crew, lacrosse, and tennis. No doubt the good yearling material will be eliminated before long...
Ever since slack-chinned Prince Nicholas of Rumania became a chronic reckless driver (TIME, Nov. 4, 1929, et seq.), he has been a favorite subject for speculative diagnosis with the Viennese psychiatrists, who gather nightly to drink coffee with whipped cream at the Cafe Siller on the Franz Josef Quai. Many and ingenious have been the explanations of why H. R. H. groin-kicked the driver of a taxi with which he had collided (TIME, Dec. 30). First Viennese psychiatrist to issue his ideas to the press was Dr. Erwin Wexburg...