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...poverty. Ulrika discovers that Mylius is in reality a multi-millionaire who has kept his fortune secret out of his excessive miserliness. She brilliantly inserts herself into the bosom of the family, makes herself dominant in the household, opens its eyes to the truth, and encourages it in a reckless extravagance which finally breaks and kills old Mylius...
...appreciably increased. The real explanation for this and for all such expeditions is only partly scientific curiosity; it is much more the insatiable longing of a certain type of intellect to penetrate farther into the unknown than any other living being has yet been. It is rash, reckless, and usually productive of little immediate good; but had it not been a moving force since the beginning of history, Vespucci had been an obscure Portuguese sailor, and the western prairies would still be the hunting ground of the coyote and the timber wolf...
...other speakers were sent into South Dakota, and but a very few residents of South Dakota took the stump in behalf of the President. The statement that the campaign had been carried on by 'the most reckless and shameless use of money has no more justification than the statement with regard to the use of an 'army of orators...
...fight in South Dakota the most reckless and shameless use of money was made by the President, not only in hiring an army of orators, but in buying full-page advertisements in every paper in South Dakota and in utilizing circulation without stint...
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...