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...Mona Lisa? He bought it. Another province? He raised an army. But his political ambitions ended by embroiling him in a complicated series of expensive wars, and at the battle of Pavia he was captured by the German Emperor Charles V, imprisoned in Madrid and held for a nearly ruinous ransom...
...less unintentionally as a result of panic-stricken effort to mitigate through injudicious taxation the effects of a transient economic crisis, or as the result of a merely emotional assault upon the results of thrift and industry, would be a sorry product of our democratic society and one ruinous to some of the highest values which have been built up in our century and a half of national life...
...information adds to the general gayety of the situation and at the same time throws a new light on announcement of the Dearborn don. It now appears that Ford may have thrown down a gauntlet which will result in an unhappy competitive situation in the automobile industry with ruinous results of earnings...
Fortified with this spirit, Button has no great trouble in making the name of "Gold Eagle Guy" a power on the Pacific. He transports Chinese labor, marries his partner's fiance, and sails with brazen keel over all opposition. Faced in 1898 with ruinous Japanese competition, he steals government bullion from one of his own vessels, then scuttles her to conceal the deed. It is not money for which Button lusts, however, but rather power, and the ability to create. His faith in himself is colossal, and like Jeremiah, he shrouds all his actions in a sort of Old Testament...
...Craftily the Elders are represented as planning to gain control of the land, induce ruinous speculations, and knife the Christian churches while pretending to protect them. And meanwhile, according to Protocols Nos. 3 and 5: "We will represent ourselves as the saviors of the laboring classes who have come to liberate them from this oppression by suggesting that they join our army of Socialists, Anarchists, Communists, to whom we always extend our help under the guise of the fraternal principles of the universal solidarity of our social masonry. . . . We will adopt for ourselves the liberal side of all parties...