Word: greed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Suicide Kreuger* was in the Pope's mind when he wrote: "If what the Holy Ghost affirms through the mouth of St. Paul is ever true, much more is it true at present: 'The desire of money is the root of all evils.' ... Is it not . . . greed . . . that has brought the world to a pass we all see and deplore? From greed arises . . . narrow individualism which orders and subordinates everything to its own advantage, . . . cruelly trampling under foot all rights of others. Hence the disorder and inequality from which arises the accumulation of the wealth of nations...
...managed to nose out four other candidates. As a Wet, he handily defeated a weasler, one Omer N. Custer, whom repeal-vetoing Governor Louis Emmerson had selected as his successor. Nominee Small declaimed: "I accept the responsibility of leading the people in their battle against the forces of wealth, greed and privilege back to prosperity...
...money madness of our people, the greed and even worse of international bankers and the smug complacency and supine indifference of Government have contributed to the unhappy results...
...heroism, mercy and ingenuity guided the Good People, greed, extortion and ingenuity guided the Bad People. Thus $3 is a huge sum, and always has been, to some of Chapei's desperate poor, yet $3 was extorted again and again by Chinese sampanmen to ferry a refugee across the 60-ft. wide Soochow Creek to doubtful safety...
...were immoderately jubilant last week. But there are, after all, only 3,600,000 Finns. Making the most of this incontrovertible fact, Research Secretary Deets Pickett of the U. S. Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals released a press statement headed Little Finland vs. A World of Greed...