Word: selfishnesses
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...Louisiana, beet growers in Utah, were told that duty-free sugar from the Philippines was ruining their business. Philippine cocoanut oil was competing with domestic cottonseed oil. Manila hemp seemed to be hurting U. S. cordage producers. These miscellaneous economic units were pulled together in one grand and wholly selfish drive to put the Philippines outside the U. S. tariff wall by means of making them a free and foreign country. Louisiana's loud Senator Long frankly exclaimed; "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. That applies to the cotton for the Senator from Mississippi [Harrison...
...ludicrous. There is no question that the philosophy of the Prussian military caste was a barbarous one, and that it was expressed in a particularly brutal and uncompromising form. But the point is that essentially the same philosophy was dominant in the Allied nations. A blatant nationalism, a selfish imperialism, and a ruthless economic war on all rivals was characteristic of all the nations of the world in 1914. There was a profoundly evil philosophy there which needed to be destroyed. But there is little evidence that the Allies fought with the determination to destroy that philosophy...
...forms of so-called racketeering within or without the labor movement." Declared the convention: "More and more do we find those of criminal tendencies and unconcerned in the well being of the wage-earners endeavoring to gain control of our trade unions and under its cloak promote selfish if not criminal purposes...
...year. "Cooperation is one of the largest lessons one can get from colleges," thus spoke Miss Marguerite Kimball, president of the Alumnae association before two generations of Radcliffians. From this point of view--the idea that a college must teach the student cooperation, that one should beware developing a selfish attitude and a lack of interest in all things not strictly scholastic--this suggests the words "personality factory...
...that the nation is to have a truly democratic government, guarding the interests of the common people from the selfish mess of plutocratic blood-suckers, something should be done about the cinemas which Hollywood magnates foist upon the public and on the theatres. The producers appear to have at their disposal money, talent, equipment, everything, except taste and intelligence. "Blonde Venus" is a case to the point...