Word: selfishnesses
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...monarch misrules, he changes the people; when a president misrules, the people change him." In this simple faith Juárez, played with stolid nobility by Paul Muni in a dusty Prince Albert and stovepipe hat, is unmoved by Maximilian's liberal protestations, his break with his selfish landowner backers, his sincere offer to make the President his Secretary of State. And when the U. S. finally frightens Napoleon into abandoning the puppet emperor to his fate, Juárez makes a choice between principle and pity, sends Maximilian before a firing squad...
...description of Europe's greatest previous secret policeman-Napoleon's Minister of Police Joseph Fouché-as a "cold, selfish, remorseless fanatic" fits Policeman Himmler too. Of all the Nazi leaders, he is the most uncompromising, the least likely to show mercy or kindness. He is also unique among Nazi big shots in that he literally grew up with the Party, never knew or worked at much of anything else...
President Roosevelt's plea for reconciliation between the forces of the C. I. O. and the A. F. of L. had as its basis one altruistic motive and one selfish purpose, according to Russell A. Nixon, Instructor and tutor in Government...
...pray that the poisonous pens of selfish interests and their hirelings which, since the primary elections, have dipped into the well of venom for the purpose of embarrassing and humiliating some of us folks chosen by the people shall...
...Maybe that's selfish," said the selectmen, "but we'll lose about $1,000 a year, and that makes more taxes for the rest...