Word: greeds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shame his money-grubbing brother the penniless Laurent takes his first 1,000 francs and horrifies him by tearing it up and throwing it into the Marne. Not for a long time can Laurent steel himself to confess that while he was making his grandiose speech about poetry and greed, he was quietly pocketing 500 of the francs he pretended to have thrown away...
...modern world Swift's egomania is translated into "two nations, the rich and the poor, walking to their death in opposed hordes, [bound together by] a cannibalistic greed, hatred, and fear...
...companies and men got together to buy gasoline from independent refiners in the spot markets of east Texas and Oklahoma; by contract the price of gasoline they sold to big jobbers was determined by the price that they themselves paid in the spot markets ; gradually, by "golden stairs to greed and avarice." they raised the price of the small quantities of gasoline they bought from the independents, thereby raising the price of the large quantities of the gasoline they sold to the jobbers, which in turn raised midwest retail prices...
...about the State of the Nation. Referring to "the prevailing belief that wages should he reduced and prices raised," he declared: "The people are getting a good education in the fallacy of the economic rule now in force. Whenever prices go down and wages up, benefits accrue. Eliminate the greed for money and substitute a little zeal for production and normal conditions soon will return." The liberal New York World-Telegram commented that these sentiments "just can't be matched for durable and unassailable common sense...
...Union. Surrounded by microphones, against a background formed by Vice President Garner and House Speaker William Bankhead (see cut), the President proceeded to cover assorted aspects of the Union's condition without concentrating on any one. His address lacked the fire of his historic denunciation of "entrenched greed" in 1936, the amiability of his complacent curtain-raiser to the Supreme Court fight a year ago. Its 4,000 words had, instead, a special quality of earnest persuasiveness combined with that vigorous self assurance which is characteristically Rooseveltian. His major points...