Word: unselfish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ORLEANS--President Roosevelt today called on leaders of organized labor in the interests of national unity to make an "unselfish, a farsighted and patriotic" effort to end their five-year...
...face was damp with perspiration that comes from deep thought. ... He said ... 'I have been here seven years. I believe I am entitled to a rest.' I looked upon that benign face . . . and I said: 'Mr. President, you are a soldier ... in command of an unselfish army . . . that believes in happiness for the human race . . . that wants to strike the shackles from human limbs, and make all men happy and free. We cannot give up in the middle of this struggle...
During 34 years of brilliant writing, Joe Toye has fought courageously and often alone for the establishment and survival of decency. His has been such an exceptional and well-known career of unselfish fighting for right against all conceivable odds that you damage your own reputation as a reliable authority when you state that the paper "is not renowned for its editorial vigor...
...Herbert Hoover, now the newsreeling chum & consort of sports columnists, stage stars, debutantes, had amassed $2,500,000 in hard U. S. cash for Finnish relief. With unselfish enthusiasm he reported that twelve other groups were in the field, collecting with equal avidity. Mr. Hoover made a dramatically sudden appearance before the House Foreign Affairs Committee (his first before a Congressional Committee since he was Secretary of Commerce), said 7,000,000 Poles need aid-about $50,000,000 worth...
Like Carlo Collodi's children's classic, the picture is a morality tale. Kindly old Wood Carver Geppetto carves a puppet so lifelike that he is given life. But before the live puppet can become a boy he must become truthful, courageous, unselfish. His one constant companion in the adventures that test the little puppet is Jiminy Cricket, his conscience, "that still, small voice that nobody listens to." This worldly but goodhearted little insect, topped by a grey topper and swinging an umbrella ("a genuine Chamberlain" which he sometimes uses for a parachute), comes to work late...