Word: self
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Conniving, Self-Aggrandizing...
...just read your biased account of political events under the head of The Presidency, in TIME, July 31, and I want you to know how your account of the defeat of the Neutrality Bill appears to one who has got more respect for honor than he has for conniving, self-aggrandizing politicians...
...nominate conservative candidates, or lip-service candidates, on a straddlebug platform, I personally, for my own self-respect and because of my long service to, and belief in, liberal democracy, will find it impossible to have any active part in such an unfortunate suicide of the old Democratic Party...
Argentina's meat and wheat had a war market, but her inability to obtain her customary imports handicapped her industry, and deprived her Government of its chief revenue, customs duties. She had desperately to borrow money and launched on a still-continued effort to become self-sufficient...
Soon as the Tribune had its story ready, it got a statement from the bishop. He denounced the "scandal mongers [who] have spoken of me as though my sole friends are publicans and sinners. That is, I am proud to say, true! I have no friends so self-respecting that they are in need of no repentance. . . . Why whisper and use . . . innuendo! Why not be forthright and say, as I frankly say ... that Mrs. Ablewhite and I have been at the Chez Paree, which we have enjoyed, and to other restaurants where shows have been as good...