Word: greeds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last spring entitled "The Ring of the Niebelungen" represents the dwarf ruler Alberich whipping his workers in order to speed up their creation of destructive wealth, symbolized by the Ring forged from the Rhine gold. The artist is here attempting to present the struggle between creative science and material greed, not, as some one tried to interpret it, a comparison between the treatment of regimented and unregimented workers in contemporary Germany. At the left of the main part of the mural, Alberich's hand tries to grasp the Rhine gold, reaching up from sea-green water, while maidens resist...
...seem to suggest, Tunis shows the same astonishingly naïve curiosity as to why even Harvard men hate President Roosevelt, as was expressed in a recent magazine article by co-operatives expert Marquis W. Childs. Both gentlemen should hark back to such Rooseveltian phrases as "hatred of entrenched greed." "unscrupulous money changers." "discredited special interests.'' "resplendent economic autocracy,'1 "enslavement for the public," "the forces of privilege and greed," and "economic royalists," with which our President demonstrates his yearning for the votes of the proletariat, and cease wondering...
...mental confusion such as the world has not seen since the last of the Roman legionaries were recalled from the borders of the Rhine. And Harvard, for all we know, may once again become a sort of intellectual stockade in the heart of a jungle of partisanship and greed...
Guilty, by "Anonymous," with a foreword by Donald Richberg, giving reasons why the New Deal is an essential antidote to the poisons of entrenched greed...
...shrine of heroic El Cid, Eleventh Century Savior of Spain. Said Mola: "We do not want Spain split by class hatreds. We will stop exploitation of the workers who today are suffering misery born of discontent and stockmarket manipulation. Spain's national economy was ruined by greed...