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...year at Harvard Law School and became secretary to U. S. Circuit Court Judge Julian Mack (receiverships). The War and the Jews' plight brought Cohen into contact with Louis Dembitz Brandeis. He is still a director of Palestine Economic Corp., wherein he first tasted planned economy. In the reckless 19205 he was not above playing the stockmarket. A killing Chrysler stock (he was so excited about it at the time that he used gleefully to point to every Chrysler he saw on the street) made him temporarily rich. He kept enough pelf for comfort, is not "socialistic because...
...This reckless character broke down as he faced the court-martial. He sniveled: "S'elp me, Hi honly done it to sive a few bob t'buy warm clothes for me wife an' child...
Readers of Blood and Steel may be staggered by the Krupps' arrogant way with governments and their reckless profiteering, but Schneider, Skoda, Vickers, Putiloff, Armstrong, were as bad or worse...
...would stop chivying the cooperatives. Said he: "The department does not take the view that the offences committed are crimes which reflect upon the character or high standing of the persons involved. The analogy to which this proceeding should be compared is that of a prosecution for reckless driving committed by a person of distinction and good-will who is in a hurry to meet his legitimate engagements...
PRELUDE FOR WAR-Leslie Charteris-Crime Club ($2). Characteristic Charteris story in which Simon Templar, the reckless Robin Hood of crime, outwits munitions manufacturers and thwarts a fascist revolution in France-fast-moving, but with the Saint less amusing than in his earlier adventures...