Word: recklessness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Doughtiest of Soviet commanders in the actual front-line sector, likeliest to start the game of putting White Russians to the sword, is Red Russia's greatest cavalry commander, Comrade Semion Micheilovitch Budenny, fierce, resourceful, reckless. His wife, from his own wild Kuban steppes, galloped and fought at his side when the young Soviet Republic was death-grappling with Wrangel and Denikin...
Laws. To draft a uniform aviation code to be adopted by all States, government representatives, legislators, lawyers and flyers met at Mineola, L. I., last week. Their preliminary recommendations included punishments for flying while drunk, reckless stunting, flying so low as to endanger persons on the ground, making too much noise with the motor, landing on and damaging private property. During the past year state legislatures entertained 250 heterogeneous bills on aviation. Of these 106 were enacted...
Lawrence Mervil Tibbett, lean, native U. S. baritone of the Metropolitan Opera Company, was last week arrested for reckless driving in Los Angeles. Next day, still jolly, he stood outside a cafe, squirted a hose on the cafe manager's automobile and on passersby, was fined $25 for disturbing the peace...
...Louis H. Jacques, son of a Detroit police sergeant, was in command of Agent Jonah Cox, killer of Archibald Eugster after a rum chase last fortnight (TIME, June 24). He had warned Agent Cox to "go easy with the gun" on previous occasions, had filed a report censuring his reckless misuse of firearms. When Eugster was shot, Agent Jacques remarked that his complaint against Cox had been borne out, whereupon he was reprimanded by his superior for discussing the case. Last week he quit the U. S. service with this explanation...
...Senator of the United States or an agency of the government of the United States has no right to injure my reputation or my business by making or publishing reckless and baseless charges affecting me and my business integrity...