Word: greed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME should ever mention St. Francis, who gave his money to the poor, I would be forced to cancel my subscription. Such interference with my duty to instill greed and selfishness in my children shall never be brooked...
...nation, working her will in national crises. Irascible, domineering as she appears, it is impossible to dislike her because of her gruff good-humor, and her submerged maternal affection, which intermittently breaks through her hardness, and prevents the characterization from degenerating into a mechanical personification of worldly greed...
...believe it was greed on the part of Marcus and Singer that led them into their difficulties. ... I am going to sentence Marcus and Saul Singer to State's prison [Sing Sing] for from three to six years." He sentenced Son Herbert to the penitentiary, three months to three years...
...also said: "Whose depression is this? If, as has been said, a fundamental cause of it is greed, who are they that did not add their part to the picture? This is a democracy of blame as well as opportunity. We were all in it-flapper, financier, newspaper man and manufacturers, laborers and politicians. It is true that its evil effects do not fall on all equally but the evil effects have been pretty widely distributed nevertheless. Fixing the blame is the occupation of the people who have lost their nerve. Finding the causes and planning the future...
...problems of "War Guilt" that beset other historians did not exist for Marshal Foch. So far as he was concerned Prussia started the War in a spirit of commercial greed. The entire subject is dismissed in three pages. At the same time he blandly admits that from 1885 to 1915 he was preparing for the coming struggle, visiting France's allies, preparing plans of attack and defense. His leave in Brittany was suddenly cut short one week before Germany delivered her ultimatum to Belgium. In the same way the political problems of the War itself did not concern him. Politicians...