Word: profit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Largest salary earned by any of these men was that of Sheriff Farley-$15,000 per year for the two years he has been sheriff. Realists realized that the officials did not profit much personally, that their mysterious incomes were simply collections for the Tammany campaign chest, party graft, not individual...
...amounting almost to guile, a promotorial intuition which Madison Square Garden Corp. has lacked since the death of George L. ("Tex") Rickard. Loquacious Promoter Johnston began his career as a professional boxer, once refused $50 to fight Terence ("Terrible Terry") McGovern. He has since overlooked so few opportunities to profit from pugilism that one of his nicknames, and the one which seems to please him most, is "the Boy Bandit...
...Investors who buy foreign bonds appreciate what a fruitless remedy for breach of contract war is. Who is there if a man owes him money and cannot pay, finds profit in going out and killing the debtor...
...asked that the U. S. reduce its armaments, confer and cooperate with other nations, especially through "existing international agencies" for world peace. Said the letter: "An acquisitive society, as the modern age has been aptly called, stands bewildered in the presence of a crisis precipitated ... by the competitive, profit-seeking principles upon which, it has hitherto been assumed, general prosperity is based...
...call upon . . . employers ... to labor for the adoption of a plan or plans which shall co-ordinate production and consumption, insure continuity of employment . . . security of income. . . . The profit-seeking motive must give way to that of service...