Word: greediest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with a good head for compound interest and the delicate ways in which money and muscle affect politics. Eddie West, the son of an Irish immigrant, brings about Prohibition singlehanded. His reason for doing so is that Prohibition will provide business opportunities. This is instantly understood by "the 18 greediest, the seven most hypocritical and the five wealthiest families in the country." to whom he goes for financing. It is also understood by an elderly and dignified Sicilian, who agrees that his society, the Mafia, will handle distribution of the alcohol that West's combine will buy up before...
...Christianity: "I loathe lambs, those symbols of Christian meekness. They are the stupidest, most persistent, greediest little beasts in the whole animal kingdom. Really, I suspect Jesus of having had very little to do with sheep, that he could call himself the Lamb of God. I would truly rather be the little pig of God, the little pigs are infinitely gayer and more delicate in soul...
...that huge deal, which formed the core of the new U.S. Steel Corporation, the beaming banker extended his hand and uttered the ultimate praise of the day: "Mr. Carnegie, I want to congratulate you on being the richest man in the world." What few men knew about "the greediest little gentleman ever created," as one biographer called Carnegie, was his inward conflict over wealth. He fretfully condemned the worship of money as "one of the worst species of idolatry," and in 1889 he wrote that "the man who dies rich dies disgraced." Before his own death in 1919, Carnegie gave...