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...Democrats have made the American farmer's mind a dumping ground for other people's garbage, Reed Benson, charged last night. They have appealed to his selfish interests to the detriment of economically sound policy, the son of the present Secretary of Agriculture said...

Author: By Christiana Morison, | Title: Reed Benson Blasts Democrats' Farm Policies as Irresponsible | 5/22/1956 | See Source »

...PRESIDENT OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF CREDIT COUNSELORS, I SALUTE TIME [MARCH 5] FOR THE FIRST COMPREHENSIVE JOB OF REPORTING THE NATIONAL INVASION OF OUR FIELD BY SELFISH PROMOTERS AND RACKETEERS. YOU RECOGNIZE THE WORK OF A FEW OF OUR MEMBERS ESTABLISHED IN METROPOLITAN AREAS; MANY OTHERS ARE FILLING COMMUNITY NEEDS ACROSS THE COUNTRY...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 19, 1956 | 3/19/1956 | See Source »

...Wildenstein's lost no time in sniping back: "The Wildenstein Galleries have never engaged in any wiretapping, and there was no evidence in the Broady trial to show that Wildenstein had participated in any way in the wiretapping. It would appear that Knoedler has instituted this action for selfish business reasons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Knoedler v. Wildenstein | 3/19/1956 | See Source »

...vexing and dangerous practical problems of the Middle East are also, especially for Britain and the U.S., problems of moral responsibility. The Arab-Israel quarrel, for instance, is directly traceable to reckless and selfish past U.S. and British deeds and omissions in that region. Responsibility for solutions must rest largely in an agreement between Britain and the U.S. on how to make Arabs and Israelis stop the fighting and begin the stabilization of the area. No doubt the forms of solution will require hard, technical, diplomatic work. But nothing will come of technical gimmicks in this or any other area...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: The Pursuit of Justice | 2/6/1956 | See Source »

...heiress who has married a title (Michael Rennie), Lana is described by her husband as "greedy, selfish, decadent, corrupt"-by which he means that she has a roving eye. As the story begins, Lana goes flouncing off to India to pick up a stallion from a maharani's stable. Enter Dr. Safti (Richard Burton), an untouchable who has been educated in England, and pretty soon the twain are meeting under every deodar that could stand the trip to California. Maybe it's yoga and maybe not, but Lana suddenly realizes what she has been needing all her life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Double Trouble | 1/9/1956 | See Source »

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