Word: selfishnesses
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...only legislation to end starvation wages and intolerable hours. . . . Wage and hour legislation ... is ... definitely before this Congress for action." Of the third (on which he indicated a special message would follow): "Capital is essential; reasonable earnings on capital are essential; but misuse of the powers of capital or selfish suspension of the employment of capital must be ended or the capitalistic system will destroy itself through its own abuses...
...useful and beneficial to a society which in general lacks education and constantly seeks new directions of guidance. The student who leaves Harvard without feeling an obligation to make himself and his education of benefit to the community in which he will eventually settle has gained little not of selfish value...
...Lippmann would say that there is a great difference between the conduct of labor unions seeking more pay for less work under the New Deal, and the labor organizations which he plans for his liberal state. His labor organization, far from being a selfish, self-seeking pressure group, would merely use its power to ensure a nice balance between the bargaining power of capital and labor. Just who is to tell when this perfect equilibrium is reached and who is to keep labor within such bounds...
...that year, increased by 18.2% over 1935, while our trade with non-agreement countries in creased 9.2%." Not on the platform but at a press conference Cordell Hull underscored his belief still further by a prediction that a general war or economic catastrophe is inevitable within two years unless selfish nationalists give international trade a chance to function...
Responsibility for the feeling of dissatisfaction which affects the audience may probably be divided between Miss Stanwyck, who lacks most of the majestical tendencies associated with the more material moments of the story and the directors, who have given us too much of the ignorant and selfish woman, for the good of their loving mother theme. John Boles plays a particularly bovine husband. Anne Shirley, as the daughter, does convincingly but to what avail? Alan Hale gives distinction to the part of Miss Stanwyck's genial boy friend...