Word: selfishnesses
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...interest (TIME, Dec. 1). I also noted marginal comment, a counter sword play, wherein statement was made that TIME is neutral on Prohibition as on all other national issues. You then openly retaliated. While assigning sincerity to the man, you took occasion to say that he also cherished a selfish motive in writing as he did: namely, to swell the coffers of the Christian Century. In that respect he is no more selfish than the Literary Digest, the Pathfinder, or many a damp American daily. Are they not using Prohibition as an advertising scheme to increase circulation? Yet I have...
...feel the author is reaching the wrong conclusions. This I cannot definitely say as yet, but while it is almost impossible to overstate the degree of suffering, even starvation, to be found among many parts of the population; and while no condemnation could be too severe for the selfish villainy of the feudal war lords, we must not lose sight of a proper perspective in the judging of these evils relatively to China as a whole...
...reply to the Morrow attack attributed earnings declines to general depression, stressed the company's sound cash position. "In times of depression," said the management's letter to stockholders, "there will appear designing individuals who will seek to stir up dissension and seize upon it to accomplish selfish ends. . . . We must . . . warn you against any scheme . . . which may have as its object stock manipulation for the benefit of the few." Between-the-lines readers saw in this statement a suggestion that a Morrow victory might result in a merger between Ward and Gold Dust...
...civilians with the rhythmic tread of soldiers on parade. And at the Stadium, the counter-point crashes into crescendo. Simplicity, incarnated in the Corps from the Hudson faces across the field unending Variety, personified by the men on the banks of the Charles. Harvard takes a cordial and somewhat selfish pleasure in bidding the Cadets welcome...
...only the so-called "sons of Harvard slackers" have been aroused to a denunciation of the convention, and also to the hypocritical, jingoistic, and selfish denial of the scenes that took place during the stay of the Legionnaires in Boston. The communication of Past Commander Erickson of the Legion indicates that even within the ranks of that organization the Boston revels were looked upon with disgust. The courageous and admirably truthful attitude here brought to light brings the remarks of the Boston politicians into an even more unattractive light...