Word: greeds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Prisoner Tausend hung his head when informed by the Court that he had acted from motives of "base greed...
...issue, Chairman Fish gave a curious interview the day before his committee report was released. He said: "If Communism is a trial, so also is Capitalism. ... It is up to the Capitalist system to clean its Augean stables and divest itself of some of its manifestations of greed, inhumanity and reaction. ... I believe in Capitalism shorn of its abuses and ugly greed to exploit labor for the Almighty Dollar...
...Flaying racketeering, Assistant Secretary of Commerce Klein declared: "A monstrous growth, a vile, malignant para site rising from the slime of criminal greed ! . . . This evil must be rooted out if American business is to progress vigorously again...
...another industry was shown in a speech he delivered at last week's Brussels meeting. "All industries," said he, "have transgressed good economic laws. . . . The capitalistic system is on trial. If you think the people who are running the industries of the world can by reason of this greed bring about such depressions as this and then not promptly take steps to mend them, no matter what the sacrifice to individuals may be, you are mistaken...
...imagine a better translation than that which William A. Drake has made. Originally titled Menschen Inn Hotel (People in a Hotel), the play manages to grasp a large chunk of existence, thrust it into a Berlin hostelry, expose it completely. It would be easy to demonstrate how Lust, Greed, Despair, Fear, Bravery are pursued throughout 36 hours in the life of a hotel and become Love, Disgrace, Hope, Birth, Death. But that would be doing precisely what Playwright Baum has, with consummate taste and brilliant use of understatement, avoided. Instead, she tells a series of delicately interwoven stories...