Word: reckless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Usually Mr. Hoover is calm and scientifically impersonal under fire. This time, however, his reply to Mr. Untermyer was quick on the trigger and vividly critical in tone. The Secretary, in fact, accused his assailer as "either engaged in slander or loss of memory" and branded his remarks as "reckless statements." The Californian followed up this slashing introduction by pointing out that the Department of Commerce has no authority to prosecute illegal combines; that he had made frequent recommendations for action against illegitimate trade associations, that he has never supported "open price associations," that the Webb-Pomerene Act was passed...
...this play both the leading man and lady are given exceptional chances to show their versatility. In the prologue Waltor Gilbert imitates a reckless youth and in subsequent scenes a settled man of forty. Similarly Ann Mason is called upon to distinguish between the characters of a mother and her daughter. These difficult assignments, however, are very well fulfilled, which helps to keep "The Faithful Heart" from repeating its New York failure...
...said if the present spirit be prolonged-the spirit of reckless strikes and fevered frivolities-financial control can never be withdrawn, because the increase in revenues cannot continue...
...growth of tax-exempt securities, which has resulted directly from the high rates of surtax, is at the same time encouraging extravagance and reckless expenditure on the part of local authorities...
...that we.were all guilty of the blackest treason to our God, our Emperor, our country." Coming on top of the statement: "... when millions of men, Russians, Frenchmen, Belgians, Englishmen, were giving up their lives in the cause of freedom, the aristocracy of the Russian capital was indulging in a reckless orgy . . ." it is a fairly conclusive condemnation of Russian aristocracy, notoriously self-indulgent...