Word: self
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Shipowners were also well pleased by the move of the powerful New York branch of the N. M. U. to strip ships' committees of their power to discipline men during voyages. While the effect of this self-discipline was generally good, some shipmasters disapproved the principle-they believed it might mean divided authority. The proposal may meet intense opposition within the union, but the leaders favor it and there is little doubt of its passage...
Samuel Isaac Krieger arrived in the U. S. from Germany some ten years ago, self-billed as a mathematical wizard and armed with a letter purporting to be a yip of praise from no less a personage than Albert Einstein. He quickly convinced reporters that he was indeed a marvel at quick mental calculation. He would say, "Think of a number from one to a bil lion," multiply the number given by a smaller number and have the answer in a few seconds. He would ask a newshawk for the date of his birth and then, after a moment...
William Randolph Hearst probably would not employ a self-styled Communist. But he knew that Communists were on his payroll, and that they were numerous and strong enough to finance a house organ (Hearst Worker) for many months. There have also been Communists on the Scripps-Howard papers who published a fiery Beacon when they had the time and money...
...hide behind a self-created...
Then, at a stroke, the murder. Then, with a counterstroke, the murderers, using mealy-mouthed journalese, try to justify their crime. In this sudden contrast of shoddy human self-seeking with rapt spiritual self-abnegation, Eliot gets in a brutal and final punch...