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== Midas Mulligan ==

== Midas Mulligan ==

The next and most crucial recruit was [[Midas Mulligan|Michael Mulligan]] of [[Chicago]], known as "Midas" to his friends and associates. He had even gone so far as to change his name legally to "Midas" when he began to develop a reputation in the popular press as a [[money]] miser. (He was not a miser at all; he simply believed that sound banking principles did not include pretending to lend money when one might as well be giving it away.) In or about the fifth year of the strike, the Twentieth Century Motor Company went under, as Galt knew it would. A feckless man named Lee Hunsacker sought to buy the factory, thinking, as he would say later to [[Dagny Taggart]], that at last this was his "one chance at something big." He applied to Mulligan for a business loan, and Mulligan refused, citing his prior abysmal business record.

Two years later, Galt met his next and most crucial recruit: [[Midas Mulligan|Michael Mulligan]] of [[Chicago]], known as "Midas" to his friends and associates. He had even gone so far as to change his name legally to "Midas" when he began to develop a reputation in the popular press as a [[money]] miser. (He was not a miser at all; he simply believed that sound banking principles did not include pretending to lend money when one might as well be giving it away.) Four years after Galt had quit the Twentieth Century Motor Company, it finally went under, as Galt knew it would. A feckless man named Lee Hunsacker sought to buy the factory, thinking, as he would say later to [[Dagny Taggart]], that at last this was his "one chance at something big." He applied to Mulligan for a business loan, and Mulligan refused, citing his prior abysmal business record.

The resentful Hunsacker sued Mulligan and asked for a court order compelling Mulligan to grant the loan. The initial trial judge, [[Judge Narragansett]], told the [[jury]] in his charge to them that he could find no precedent for granting the relief for which Hunsacker had prayed, and believed the law under which Hunsacker had sued to be unconstitutional. The jury, perhaps in a case of [[jury nullification]], found for Mulligan. Hunsacker appealed. In a result that perhaps even John Galt found incredible, the appellate court reversed Judge Narragansett's dismissal and remanded the case for further consideration. A second jury found for Hunsacker, who now had a judgment against Mulligan.

The resentful Hunsacker sued Mulligan and asked for a court order compelling Mulligan to grant the loan. The initial trial judge, [[Judge Narragansett]], told the [[jury]] in his charge to them that he could find no precedent for granting the relief for which Hunsacker had prayed, and believed the law under which Hunsacker had sued to be unconstitutional. The jury, perhaps in a case of [[jury nullification]], found for Mulligan. Hunsacker appealed. In a result that perhaps even John Galt found incredible, the appellate court reversed Judge Narragansett's dismissal and remanded the case for further consideration. A second jury found for Hunsacker, who now had a judgment against Mulligan.