Word: unselfish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Unselfish Majesty...
...useful as any State college might be. Governor Arthur Harry Moore asked the State Legislature during its last session to consider reorganizing the New Jersey government for economy. A Democrat, he was snubbed by the Republican legislators. Last week he removed the matter from politics. Mentioning "Princeton's unselfish devotion to public welfare," he wrote Acting President Edward Dickinson Duffield, invited Princeton's Department of Political Science and other "expert facilities" to survey New Jersey government, submit "nonpartisan and fully digested recommendations as to where vast savings might be made." Princeton accepted, planned to charge New Jersey nothing...
William David Coolidge, 58, General Electric assistant director of research, the Chicago Washington Award for 1932; for "devoted, unselfish and prominent service in advancing human progress," particularly for building high-power x-ray tubes...
...society has not evolved sufficiently to have reached that ideal state when people support views entirely with unselfish motives--like the mechanical society which the ants have developed--but I maintain that the views backed by the Crusaders are fully as unselfish and a great deal more constructive than those of the so-called Drys, who support a measure which time has proved to be a failure...
...college men could see that prohibitionists have nothing to gain from their beliefs, and that they are entirely sincere and unselfish in their attempts to improve this country, then these students would be able to comprehend the whole situation more clearly," he said. At present one-third of the nation is dry and believing this to be the best for the whole country; another third is wet purely for its own benefit, and the remaining third is puzzled. If this last third could be enlightened, and show what the wets are really after, prohibition would be assured of success...