Word: greed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Blomberg last week stole Austria's greatest war hero. In all German garrison towns was read a proclamation setting forth, on the 200th anniversary of the death of great Prince Eugene of Savoy, that Eugene was a Pan-German hero who had saved Germany from the "predatory greed" and "plundering, burning and murdering armies" of France's Louis...
...Bergen County, got its white-thatched black-browed Dr. Ball in 1931 by the usual Methodist method: accepting the man assigned by the local conference. With increasing apprehension Dr. Ball's congregation listened to Sunday sermons out of a liberal's bag of tricks-against "economic greed," against armament appropriations, against restrictions of civil liberties, in favor of all manner of social legislation. Preacher Ball also went outside to lecture for the American Civil Liberties Union, the American League Against War & Fascism. Church members who deplored all this lately obtained outside encouragement when the Chicago laymen...
...life of his village, and could not imagine wanting to know. But he fell an easy prey to the decoy who chattered of the wonderful rewards to be earned by working on a white man's plantation. Long before he got to Sumatra he repented of his greed and wanted to go home, but because he had signed his mark to the contract it was too late. On the teak plantation Ruki, like most of his unfortunate fellows, lived the brutal life of a slave. His woman was taken from him. given to the white tuan. He lost...
...when he is determined to equalize economic opportunities so as to establish a better and happier social order, that the Copperheads, their ancestors and their descendants secrete an extra supply of venom with which to strike down the man who bravely tilts his lance against special privilege and entrenched greed...
...These treaties can be effective only through respect for the covenants of such treaties and obedience thereto. At the present time, the attitude of governments seems to be actuated by extreme nationalism, ambition, and greed for self-sufficiency and power, more than by desire for peace...