Word: greed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fees. "The really big man in medicine has not gained distinction from high fees. Our really successful men have been small fee men. It is the little soul whose creed is greed who really charges the limit, no matter how seriously it may distress his patient."-Dr. Nathan Bristol Van Etten, vice speaker of the House of Delegates...
...having turned over its gold to the Treasury (an act which the Treasury has not yet requested). Father Coughlin demanded it in the name of "120,000,000 inarticulate American taxpayers." Said he: "The American citizenry was crucified on Good Friday, 1917 between two thieves, Gold and Greed. . . . May God bless this Congress and may we hope that by Good Friday, 1934 the Senate and the House will undo what was done...
...Milwaukee. Eighty-three per cent of the women think the U. S. is on the way out of Depression; over 5% believe they will be better off after the Depression than in their most prosperous years, chiefly because society will benefit from the ''bitter lesson of greed." Over 92% think that society has been benefited by the NRA, that consumers should buy from NRA firms only...
...wife prodded him to ambition and success, which resulted only in unhappiness and suicide for both. This was not portrayed as a result of the characters of the two people, but as a result of their wealth, their success. The whole picture was full of revealed hypocrisy, of calculated greed and rottenness, of the iniquitous effect of wealth and Yale upon the second generation...
...impact of this situation on the doctor (Lionel Barrymore), his avaricious wife (Beulah Bondi), his daughters and the family retainer (Marie Dressier), produces an unusually dextrous and amusing comedy, partly in the mood of Moliere farce, as it exposes greed and ingratitude in Dr. Haggett, partly as romance when it turns out that the Raggett's old-maid servant is not only the subject of a magnificent Bean portrait but also Bean's widow, tenderly devoted to his memory...