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...ardent pension booster. "Outrageous!" he cried when Lobbyist Bullitt called most disability payments "doles, pure and simple," and pointed to Civil War pensions as a "bad principle." Senator Robinson tried to discredit N. E. L. by showing that Lobbyist Bullitt also represented Associated Gas & Electric, "one of the most reckless units in the power trust." The Indianian insisted N. E. L. was being supported by wealthy taxpayers trying to shirk their share of War costs...
...deep-rooted as ever is dread of the saloon. Crusader Fred Clark holds firmly to his organization's purpose of "taking profit out of liquor distribution." Such an able Wet as Representative-elect Wadsworth of New York fears that Repeal, the ultimate goal, might be retarded by a reckless flood of beer...
...that I ever before told about this happening but I tell it now simply to illustrate the gross inaccuracy of the statement made by Senator Blaine and to cite one example of perhaps many, where members of Congress take advantage of the immunity given them, to make false and reckless charges, either for the purpose of injuring their enemies or to glorify themselves -and perhaps as a cheap means to gain notoriety...
...address to the American Bar Association, President Hoover, naming no names, warned against a betrayal "by false prophets of a millennium promised through seductive but unworkable and disastrous theories of government." urged all good lawyers to "defend our system of government against reckless assaults by designing persons...
...into a hydrant and knocked down a telegraph pole carrying high tension wires. Water from the broken hydrant flooded the street, street lights in the manufacturing district went out, a drawbridge operated electrically was disabled, Kowera's automobile caught on fire. Alexander Kowera. burned, was fined $25 for reckless driving...