Word: altruism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Golden Rule, none of them relies on it exclusively. In the four Gospels Jesus speaks several times about the brotherhood of man, but he speaks of the Fatherhood of God just three times as often. Without that Fatherhood, man's efforts to live by the light of altruism have always landed him in its dark opposite...
...highly restrictive sugar tariff. For the sugar-beet people, wary of potential competition, have always been hard-headed about Philippine independence and even this short-run freeing of the market is viewed with suspicion from Madison to Butte. The Bell Bill was obviously a compromise, with political altruism knuckling under to politics-as-usual while the wobbly Philippine infant got the economic pins knocked out from under...
This help for small businessmen on the part of Alcoa and Dow Chemical was not all pure altruism. They were both uncomfortably aware of the $1 billion in U.S.-owned aluminum and magnesium plants, and, in particular, the talk of government subsidies to keep the aluminum plants competing with Alcoa. To Alcoa's mind this talk could best be silenced by creating a demand big enough to use all the metal the plants could turn out. It could turn the trick, if it could find a few hundred gadgets like its clothespin...
China will need the aid of U.S. money, resources, and engineering skill to complete its Yangtze project. But U.S. aid would not be pure altruism. Such a huge source of power would gradually alter much of China's backward economy, giving her a new capacity to repay the cost, and at the same time making her industries and people customers for U.S. electrical equipment...
...part it is a realistic and cynical point of view. Students feel that we are repeating the steps this country followed in 1915-17, and are being drawn into another futile war to make the world safe for democracy. And they resent appeals to their altruism because they know that men can fight altruistically in bad wars as well as good ones...