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...Every speeder his own judge " is the novel means which the Swedish Riksdag, with the help of inventors, has adopted to curb reckless auto-mobiling. Experiments are being conducted with a new recording speedometer which is to indicate not only the number of miles a car has run, but also the rate of speed during any part of the trip. Despite the fact that no recording speedometer has been perfected, the new law makes it compulsory for every car to carry one. This automatic evidence will both acquit the innocent and convict the guilty...
...sign of the times, it is reported that seashore cottages do not rent quite so readily this summer as last, and reckless spending is in little evidence save among bricklayers, carpenters, etc. Money is easy, though rates are firm...
...Doherty rather than the banking firm of Lehman Brothers finance the Company out of its present difficulties. This appeal has led to a typical retort from Samuel Untermyer, attorney for the preferred stockholders and the Lehman interests. "Judge Parker," the Untermyer statement concludes, "has been misled into making reckless assertions as to the Company's condition that are temperately characterized as of unsurpassed audacity and inaccuracy...
There are but two explanations of the seeming unregeneracy of this Prince Hal. Royal families have always been reckless. William the Conqueror fell to his death from a horse which had stepped on a hot cinder. King Edward followed the hounds hard, and killed single-handed an Indian tiger which had attacked his elephant. George 11 was small and choleric, but he rode obstinately into the cannon balls at Dettingen. The Prince has precedent, and a family. His three brothers and Princess Mary's Master Lascelles constitute a large royal family; he does not see the necessity of looking...
...general consensus of opinion indicates that the recent expansion in production and distribution has reached its peak. Nevertheless, previous fears that this expansion would broaden into a reckless and unsound speculative movement are less keenly felt. The principal markets seem to have attained an equilibrium, and the question now is, whether present industrial and mercantile activity can be maintained throughout the year...