Word: selfishnesses
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...rising generation, carry on the torch of patriotism which the American Legion has borne so successfully in the past," he continued. "The recent passage of the Soldier's Bonus in Congress has proven that no longer is our government subject merely to individual selfish pressure but to just and rightful demands of deserving groups...
...loved and memorized by many Japanese. The improvement of such conditions of want and misery may have lurked in the minds of these radicals. They must have thought that by overthrowing the present Cabinet they would be helping to bring forth a Cabinet genuinely patriotic and free from selfish interests...
...Marti closed his prospectus with a solemn protest to the League of Nations that "the Government of a Country . . . has insidiously seized the ideas and propositions contained in my plan . . . misusing them for its own selfish purposes, the consequence of which will be that all economic life in the entire world will go to ruin. . . . For that country (or countries) which is realizing my plan only for its own sake and its own egoism will despotically usurp hegemony over the entire world, and drag all humanity into servility...
...time of national enthusiasm for peace and neutrality, any stumpster could cry that the U. S. went to war "to save the skins of its bankers." The opportunity to accuse munitions makers and international bankers of having shoved the U. S. into a foreign war for their own selfish interests was too good to be missed by the U. S. Senate. Perhaps it might even succeed in making the new version of U. S. War history the authoritative...
...abdication. [So excited were Democratic Congressmen that they cheered here, too, by mistake. Taken aback, the President lost his place, started to skip a sentence] "They offer. . . . They offer. . . . They seek-let me put it that way," he interjected, covering up his slip. "They seek the restoration of their selfish power. They offer to lead us back round the same old corner into the same old dreary street. . . . "They steal the livery of great national constitutional ideals to serve discredited special interests. As guardians and trustees for great groups of individual stockholders, they wrongfully seek to carry the property...