Word: mammon
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...should be explained that Upton Sinclair, now 84, has had his finger in every pious and progressive cause since 1900 and has published 90 books, most of this unimaginable wordage being in the promotion of beliefs that range from socialism and mental telepathy to vegetarianism and teetotalism, and against Mammon-variously embodied as Privilege, the Trusts, the House of Morgan, the Press, etc. As monument, the book is touchingly human. As autobiography, it is something less; success in that elusive art is achieved only by those whose quarrel has been with themselves rather than the world. Sinclair, who has quarreled...
...smokes Dunhill Monte Cristo Colorado Maduro No. 1's, and if he is seen frequently in expensive restaurants with men whose grain is coarse although their shirts be fine, it must not be thought that he loves the world too well. His is not a case of "Hail Mammon, full of cash." Not at all. Father Urban knows and loves his duty, which is to God. But he knows also that he is by far the best fund raiser, and indeed almost the only capable man, in the Clementines, a small and not very notable Midwestern order. The tall...
Having won the approval of both the Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox churches for her prospective May marriage to Spain's Prince Juan Carlos, Greece's fetching Princess Sophie, 23, came to grips with Mammon. In an atmosphere of high drachma and low politics, the National Radical Union majority in Greece's Parliament argued-correctly-that the royal family was "not rich" and pushed through over the loud protests of a not-so-loyal opposition a bill granting the princess a dowry...
Facelift for Mammon. The Sunday paper was originally conceived as only a seventh edition of the daily press. Fiercely attacked by clergymen in its formative years-they considered it a Mammon-like rival of the pulpit-it did not succeed in establishing itself until the Civil War generated a ravenous public appetite for news and gave it permanent root. But not until Joseph Pulitzer, already the successful publisher of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, arrived in New York in 1883 did the Sunday paper begin sprouting into the giant it is today. With sensational features, comic strips, four-color illustrations...
...industrialists and financiers in the 19th and early 20th centuries were Calvinists or Protestant sectarians, and it is "striking" how many of the clergymen in industrial centers were eulogizers of laisses-faire capitalism. But, he writes, "it was not the worship of God that led to the worship of Mammon. It was rather that it was necessary to demonstrate that devotion to wealth was not necessarily an impediment to true piety-and the need to assert it was all the greater because so many of the Puritan fathers had so intensely feared the harmfulness of riches." When old-style "robber...