Word: harm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...written him confirming their conversation. From this document Secretary Ickes quoted Publisher Hearst as follows: "The average politician around him [Landon] is continually urging him to get out and talk. Talk is the method of the average politician, but ... this is a campaign in which speechmaking might do more harm than good. At present the Democrats have nothing to criticize Governor Landon about. You can see that in their attempts to criticize him. Too many speeches might give the Democrats their eagerly wanted opportunity...
...Democratic high command of 1936 was doing was to adopt the successful tactics which local Democratic machines in the big cities of the North have independently developed in the last ten years. Before that time any Negro who voted Democratic was threatened with social ostracism if not bodily harm by Republican members of his race. No respectable Negro congregation would dream of allowing a Democratic political meeting to be held in its church. Moreover most Negro politicians were subservient blackamoors who sold their flocks to this or that white Republican faction paying the highest price...
...knew all about this case before it caught the limelight. ... I know Mary Astor well. My husband met her just about this time a year ago. I was in Honolulu and he was working in Hollywood. They had a flirtation. ... I cannot see any terrible harm in that. Is it unusual for a husband to flirt with an actress? We have been married 20 years. We are adults, leading our own lives in adult fashion...
...fonder of tinkering with machines than with people. Settling in Cleveland, he married, fathered three children, became president of Sterling Electrical Co. Now he is a free-lance consultant and inventor, has a small laboratory in his apartment. Dr. Longoria does not believe that showmanship does an inventor any harm...
Balinese ethics are dictated by the benefit or harm that would affect the community as a whole if certain acts were performed. Private behavior which does not injure other members of the community is regarded with complete indifference. Geoffrey Gorer thinks that the West has nothing to teach the East except the use of labor-saving machinery, that the East has a great mission in teaching the Wrest the rudiments of good manners...