Word: greeds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...villains were no longer in demand he sold Carl Laemmle the idea for a picture-The Pinnacle. Laemmle changed the name to Blind Husbands. "No one vill go to see de pinochle." Von Stroheim directed and played the lead. He arranged stories for other pictures. His best was Greed, based on McTeague, by Frank Norris. In his eagerness to make every job a masterpiece he consistently refused to conform to the commercial limitation of picture making. His films had to be cut to pieces to reduce them to program time. Producers became wary. His Wedding March, acclaimed by critics...
...believe in justice to him who hath as much as to him who hath not, and I think envy is as great a sin as greed...
...racket for the pants-makers, and millions of minds were being trivialized and anaesthetized by that endless flicker of falseness and venality. How much of my work was actually applied to the service of a sane humanity? How much of it was cheapened and perverted by the greed of men, the mechanical greed of money to make more money? My work was honest work. I never cared for money?never thought about it. You imply that my work helped to fill that vulgar adolescent heaven of yours. I deny it. At any rate, it's your heaven, not mine...
Wisconsin's young Senator La Follette blazed away like his father in this fight:† "We are filling the jury box that will decide the issue between organized greed and the rights of the masses. . . . Aggregations of capital threaten to wipe out the great middle class in this country...
...remarkable investigator on fire with public zeal, Counsel Hughes exposed the Consolidated Co.'s gas monopoly, forced rates based on overcapitalization down 20%. With this crusade over, he plunged into the next as counsel for the Armstrong Insurance Commission which dredged up the hidden slime of insurance companies' greed and corruption. Popular acclaim swept him into the Governorship in 1906 over William Randolph Hearst. There he proceeded to execute the pledges of a "reform" administration. He was re-elected on the promise to drive horseracing and gambling out of the State...