Word: selfishnesses
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...such an extent has grown the evil of demagoguery among politicians that the real facts and the economic principles involved in questions of national policy are continually obscured by a dense and putrid fog of demagogic argument designed simply to forward selfish personal, political and group interests...
...take over the steel plants "if the steel interests should not be willing to give their full cooperation because of the prices fixed." After that, according to Mr. Baruch, the steel companies coöperated in splendid fashion. Mr. Baruch claimed that some steelmakers at first showed a selfish attitude in the matter of pricing steel needed by the U. S. Government, and that in another war industries as well as men should be "nationalized." In short, Mr. Baruch admitted the facts charged, but defended his attitude and attacked that of the steelmakers...
Once men trembled at his word; now he is a "prisoner, not permitted to see communications sent to him ... a manipulated and bossed figurehead ... in the hands of more astute and cleverer selfish...
...plain Tuchun things were easier. Now he is President, "anything but a scholar" and not understanding the intricacies of politics, he is at a grave disadvantage. Instead of being surrounded by an army eager to obey his command he is surrounded by an army of "corrupt, selfish, intriguing and clever" politicians eager to command him. This is why he is "sick and unhappy...
...various mediums by which this authority had been and would always, presumably, be exercised. These mediums he classified as the state, the church, the schoolmaster, and the parent. He spoke of the inadequacy of each to exercise the authority which it possessed: for each, he declared, had some selfish aim outside the person educated himself...