Word: recklessness
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...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...
...statement to the White House newsgatherers the President continued: "I hope that the American people realize that when reckless, baseless and infamous charges, with no attempt at verification, are supported by political agencies and are broadcast, reflecting upon the probity of public men such as Secretary Wilbur, the ultimate result can only be damage to public service as a whole...
...This reckless, blustering young aristocrat is one of the closest friends of Aus-trian-born Adolf Hitler, Fascist bogyman of Germany. His castle, moldering and feudal Schloss Waxenberg perched on a crag above Linz, is well stocked with rifles, machine guns, ammunition.* Prince von Starhemberg in fine is the chieftain of Austria's irregular and reactionary Heimwehr, well drilled veterans of numerous bloody clashes with the equally irregular Socialist Schutzbund (TIME, Sept. 2, 1929 et seq.). That Monsignor Seipel and all he stands for should want Prince von Starhemberg to be Minister of Interior is a fact with the pregnancy...
...Worthless." Secretary Wilbur's first step was to refuse to accept Field Chief Kelley's resignation and, instead, to suspend him. Mr. Kelley, slight, grey-haired, softspoken, has been a Federal employe for 25 years. Secretary Wilbur denounced his charges as "reckless and false," called him a "clerk." While Field Chief Kelley talked only of oil land sales, Secretary Wilbur confused the issue by talking chiefly of oil leases, none of which have been granted under the Hoover conservation policy. As to sales he said: "These oil shale lands aren't worth anything now. You couldn't sell a strip...
...pulse of the nation and hears distress signals from whatever source they come. But not all can be saved and some indeed deserve to go to the bottom. The majority of the latter belong to the category-enormously increased during and after the War-of business improvisers, men more reckless than enterprising, acrobats of industry and finance, men supremely encyclopedic in their initiatives...