Word: unselfish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their education the City Affairs Committee, a non-partisan reform organization, last week offered a heedless Board of Education a new textbook that was all about Tammany. It was called New York & The Sea bury Investigation. It was edited by Columbia's Professor John Dewey, famed philosopher and unselfish friend, of every reform. In satirically simple language it described the city's "boss system" in terms of the spiciest testimony from last year's scandal hunt, let ex-Mayor "Jimmy" Walker damn himself out of his own mouth and left young heads to puzzle over the fortunes...
...deplored his long lectures on administrative and constitutional law. The Frankfurters pointed with pride to the way he sent his pupils home to wrangle for weeks over one of his neat, sharp questions. Put in an abrupt, jerky voice, they were usually questions of broad social significance. Public-minded, unselfish, a disciple of Liberals Oliver Wendell Holmes and Louis Dembitz Brandeis, Felix Frankfurter has turned down a seat on the Massachusetts Supreme Court and partnerships in firms worth $200,000 a year. Now 50, a man with a perpetually crisp, alert expression, and a charming wife, he will take...
...thousands of shares. When his strong box was clean he turned over mortgages on his three homes. Last week he still owed J. P. Morgan & Co. $5,852,538.38 which the collateral fails to cover by about $1,000,000. Mr. Steuer makes the point that because of an unselfish effort to avert a disastrous crash in City Bank shares his client is a ruined debtor...
...conduct in banking and in business which too often has given to a sacred trust the likeness of callous and selfish wrongdoing. Small wonder that confidence languishes, for it thrives only on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection, on unselfish performance...
...quite confident that if the writer of the said article would know the unselfish character of His Imperial Majesty and his devotion for the welfare and progress of Persia, which placed him as an idol before his countrymen, he certainly would not end his article using the very ambiguous term which will never find the approval of the Persian nation standing so closely in friendship with...