Word: selfishnesses
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...There have been doubts in times yet recent, whether culture were not selfish; whether men of refined tastes and manners could love Liberty, and be ready to endure hardness for her sake...
Henry Ford: "In a magazine article on income taxes, I declared that I object to high surtaxes because they hurt business. 'But,' said I, 'from a purely selfish personal standpoint, it does not matter to me whether I am taxed 1% or 99%, for I could live as I live now on 1% of my income...
LOVE ? AND THE PHILOSOPHER ? Marie Corelli?Doran ($2.00). The ingredients of this story are a "grim and selfish" philosopher, a poor and handsome young man, a pretty but sentimental girl. Also, there is the girl's father and the War. Of course the "grim and selfish" philosopher turns out to be not as grim and selfish as he was supposed to be, and the young man discovers that he is the heir to a great deal of money, and of course at the end there is a wedding. "Has my heroine chosen the right partner for life?" asks...
...goes about the demonstration of his theory by discovering a household full of selfish brats in incipient stages of art and matrimony. Father, who has paid the bills for 25 or 27 years, is suddenly forced out of a job and the brat brood is penniless. Immediately there is a general rallying round. The selfish brats map out lucrative business careers on the spot, matrimony is postponed and slender savings plugged into the breach in the domestic dyke...
...Washington that there be established a strong, purely American company to engage in the business of international wireless communication, and effectively compete with foreign-owned or controlled companies in that field." By mobilizing the electric patents of the leading American concerns, the Radio Corporation, he claimed, has ended selfish and obstructive rivalry, and greatly furthered the development of wireless communication. Radio Corporation acquired the American Marconi Co. from control of the British Marconi Co., and thus saved the General Electric patents and apparatus from being sold to foreign firms. In this way, General Harbord maintained, the public interest has been...