Word: unselfish
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...President, of course, is doing his best in a trying situation and deserves the support of every patriotic citizen, so far as the conscience and judgment of that citizen allows him to support the policies of the President. We all believe in the unselfish ambitions and the patriotism of the man in the White House. But I would not nominate him as the Man of the Year. The soundest influence in public life in America today is Alfred E. Smith...
Mellifluous sentiment oozes from the mouth of Lionel Barrymore. It is a pleasant shock. Only once in his performance as the unselfish country doctor does he resort to his hair-pulling act. "One Man's Journey" depicts the life of a generous rural physician who struggles and struggles to amass enough money for research work. When he has the opportunity to go to the medical center in New York, he is detained because little Letty McGinnis swallows iodine. At the end we see him still struggling in the country. "One Man's Journey" is not an epic...
...Perkins. Nevada's Pittman, Foreign Relations Committee chairman and president protem of the Senate, was credited with a letter to the President which declared: "It is a strange thing that if a Democrat recommends an appointee, it is political coercion. If a Republican recommends one, it is entirely unselfish. If a Democrat is named ... it involves political corruption. If a Republican is named it is an indication of high-minded non-partisanship...
Because bitter experience of a generation is not inherited, patriotism will live on. Individuals cannot resist the call of martial trumpets. Patriotism cannot be outlawed, but war can through the patient efforts of skillful unselfish diplomats using the facts of economic interdependance for their operations...
...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...