Word: unselfish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, Congress also sent to the White House measures providing for: ¶ A special Medal of Honor award to aged (85) General of the Armies John J. Pershing (belatedly, for services in World War I, and for "gallant and unselfish devotion to ... the preparation for and prosecution of World War II"). ¶A standard 12.5% royalty on gas & oil leases on the public domain, instead of varying rates now negotiated-assailed by ex-Secretary Ickes as "further enrichment [of the oil companies] at the public expense...
...unselfish devotion." Root of Evil. In his letter of resigna tion, Harold Smith took a parting snick at the root of a Government evil: too little money for able men. Wrote he: "It would have been only a short time until existing limitations on the salaries of public officials would have forced me out. ... I could not have continued without reducing certain fixed charges which I have regarded for many years as important to the security of my family." For about 15 years, Kansas-born Harold Smith had researched and taught the science of government, had served in local...
...minutes she stood silently facing the wooden cross, then walked to a microphone. "We are looking forward to a better world to come." The words were clear and steady. "May the same unselfish and unflinching spirit of those who fell here prevail in the rebuilding of The Netherlands...
Alfred Noyes, British poet (The High wayman) now living in California, advised San Francisco conferees to renounce power politics for "the religion of unselfish love. God help us if we reach a stage in which our plumbing is perfect but in which the human soul atrophies." Colonel Robert S. Allen, onetime co-columnist with Drew Pearson (Washing ton Merry-Go-Round), lost his lower right arm by amputation after being wounded in Germany, captured, freed three days later by advancing...
...artist is a selfish person whom we like, and the philanthropist an unselfish person whom we do not like."—:A. Clutton-Brock...