Word: greed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
When old Latin America hands reminisce about bad days in the Caribbean, they usually agree that the 1908-35 regime of Juan Vicente Gómez in Venezuela was unsurpassed in greed, cruelty and lust. Ignorant, fierce-mustached Góomez brought to Caracas' Miraflores Palace the bandit morals of the 19th Century caudillos he admired, the manners of the peon he was, the behavior of the bulls he raised. The nation's treasury and the nation's women were his; he liked to share these boons with his bastard brothers and with...
Onie's Diplomatic Doorman. Bill Boyle got through the Kansas City School of Law, and, in 1926, was admitted to the bar. He stuffed his diploma in a desk, went to work selling gas appliances, and married a stenographer named Genevieve Hayde. If Bill had failings, greed was not among them. A friend recalls: "He'd make $100 in the morning and take it easy around home the rest...
Though there were some mutterings from the squirearchs, Eccles was widely applauded for trying to shift Tory emphasis from "inheritors of wealth" to "creators of wealth." Socialism, on the other hand, said Winston Churchill, is trying to keep in power by "appealing to moods of greed and envy," by keeping "the vanguard back" for the benefit of the laggard...
...cynical '20s and '30s, our men of strength and stature were described as pygmies. The elder Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie . . . Henry Ford were treated as archetypes of greed . . . Historians have underestimated their constructive work...
Between gasps, the Prime Minister told correspondents that Iran would "fight to the death" for oil nationalization, added: "The first step towards the country's reform is to get rid of Anglo-Iranian agents who have sacrificed the whole nation to satisfy their greed." But he showed awareness of what was at stake in Iran for the free world: "The free nations of the world who assist Iran in this struggle will not only prevent the fall of this, one of the oldest nations of the world, but by survival of this nation, the fate of the world...