Word: greed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...town of Bradford, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, he found changed for the worse. At Bradford a reunion of his old battalion made Author Priestley angrily reminiscent of the War. "I have had playmates, I have had companions, but all, all are gone; and they were killed by greed and muddle and monstrous cross-purposes, by old men gobbling and roaring in clubs, by diplomats working underground like monocled moles, by journalists wanting a good story, by hysterical women waving flags, by grumbling debenture-holders, by strong, silent, beribboned asses, by fear or apathy or downright lack of imagination...
...Connor to go out and bring him specialists to help formulate some good answers to national questions. They selected Raymond Moley to corral the specialists. On his second visit, Dr. Moley brought his next door neighbor, Dr. Tugwell. To Governor Roosevelt, Dr. Tugwell stated his prime belief that private greed under the profits system had caused the Depression. At once Mr. Roosevelt and the professor were on speaking terms; the professor
...country at large and by the news-gathering agencies. The right of the people to a free press, of which we have heard so much of late, was denied, and the seeds of a deadly disease were sown among innocent victims of a cowardly and conniving press and commercial greed. . . . C. E. LOWRY Editor The Gibson Courier Gibson City, Ill. According to Dr. Morris Fishbein, editor of the American Medical Association Journal, travelers need have no more fear of visiting Chicago than any other large city. The occurrence of amebic dysentery has fallen to two or three cases a week...
Double Door (Paramount), one of last year's stage hits, is a macabre melodrama of a woman's greed. Like the famed Wendel family, the Van Bretts owe their fortune in Manhattan real estate to a simple maxim: "Never sell." Head of the gloomy house of Van Brett is Spinster Victoria (Mary Morris), a malevolent despot who rules the others with a rod of gold. When her half-brother (Kent Taylor) marries a hospital nurse (Evelyn Venable), Victoria determines that this "upper servant" shall never touch Van Brett money...
...CAUTLEY MYSTERY-A. Fielding-Kinsey ($2). Apparent greed murder, with three cousin suspects, brings Inspector Pointer to rural England. Following another murder, a trap is baited, the killer caught...