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...selfish. Let us create our selfish policy, and stick to it stubbornly. Only so and in no other way can we case turmoil and trouble here at home. Thomas Lacey...
...simply evaded. The United States is viewed as an economic entity, headed for the classical type of imperialism. This is the bare essential, we are told, and freedom of thought, religious and political liberty become, by implication, inessential. These things are words. Words by means of which selfish individuals lead youths to disaster and imperialist war. These inessentials are evidently to be replaced in "an America prosperous and busy" by the happy spirits of Marx and Lenin working through the agency of certain enlightened economists. For who can doubt your conclusion that "an American prosperous and busy is an America...
...this time of breakneck rearming. Of course a strike which ties up production of the Army's basic training planes should be settled as soon as possible. But the stumbling block in the path to adequate defense is not the union requesting a decent living wage; it is the selfish obstinacy of vested interests, guarding fat dividends and munificent executive salaries, by capitalizing upon the imperative character of the present national emergency. And the Vultee strike situation is merely symptomatic of the attitude of the interests and men who dominate the conduct of our defense efforts...
...with Trail of an Artist-Naturalist, nature lovers could follow Seton's pattering spoor across 80 years, through the wilds of Canada, the studios of Paris, the publishing business of Manhattan. Young Seton grew up in Ontario. He wanted to be a naturalist, but his father ("the most selfish person I ever heard of or read of in history or in fiction") wanted him to be an artist. So Seton straddled both careers, became rich & famous. Studying art at London's Royal Academy School, he planned a book on the birds of Canada, years later had his method...
John Lewis had done more than most men to vest new powers in the Presidency; he now denounced a President who would cling to those powers ("Personal craving for power, the overweening, abnormal and selfish craving for increased power is a thing to alarm and dismay"). A genuine isolationist, he spoke from the heart on the issue most likely to do Campaigner Roosevelt immediate harm ("His motivation and his objective...