Word: self
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chief class activities for Yardlings is the publication of the Redbook, pictorial record of the Freshman class. Other Freshman enterprises which center in the Union are the debating and photographic clubs. Most Freshman activities which are not self-supporting are financed by the Student Council...
...some of Hollywood's richest cinemagnates for alleged income-tax evasion and antitrust violations, and on the powerful stagehands union on charges of labor racketeering. Murphy men are also pressing ahead with their case against William ("Billy") Skidmore, gambling overlord of Chicago. That case might lead to self-righteous purging of the New Deal's loud-spoken Boss-Mayor Ed Kelly of Chicago. And Murphy men are after Atlantic City's Republican Boss Enoch ("Nucky") Johnson. That case might lead to action against the New Deal's biggest black sheep of all: Boss Frank Hague...
...breakdown of the parleys. The British Government made its first strong stand in the whole engagement by firmly refusing to discuss the currency issue. There being nothing more to talk about, British Ambassador Sir Robert Craigie buzzed off to Lake Chuzenji. This left Japan in' just the self-righteous psychological position she has wanted all along: "We have tried sincere negotiation and the British have refused to cooperate." Next move: force...
...manna from the skies, and unless we go a little beneath the surface in our questioning, we may feel that we enjoy this freedom because we are better than other people and therefore more worthy of it. Indeed we may give an impression to the world of that complacent self-righteousness which is said to be one of our most offensive and irritating characteristics...
...Grover Whalen prophesied for his Tomorrow 60,000,000 customers, when he unveiled his big show last April 30. Today the books of the Fair give an instructive financial history of the biggest world's fair ever. Set up like most world's fairs as a supposedly self-supporting promotion enterprise, like most, it is far from breaking even. Beyond the halfway mark (August 9), the Fair's figures revealed the reason for Mayor LaGuardia's Chicago plea. They showed in round numbers...