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...sure whether the plan will be adopted or not, so, in order that the promoters will not suffer financial deprivation while fighting tooth & nail for this unselfish plan, the association will publish a newspaper devoted to associational news and will also accept with pleasure all contributions offered by disinterested parties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 17, 1934 | 12/17/1934 | See Source »

...Perhaps I can assist in guarding and advising Mignon. She is so magnificently modest and unselfish. She lived so entirely for her King, her country and her children. Today she is lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUGOSLAVIA: Sick Queens | 11/12/1934 | See Source »

...Small wonder than confidence languishes for it thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection, on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live." (Why did the President sign the Frazier-Lemke Bill, and why did he issue an edict to prevent an individual holding a ten dollar gold certificate from receiving ten dollars in gold upon demand? Or isn't such a note a "sacred obligation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Roosevelt: Promises vs. Acts | 10/15/1934 | See Source »

...must always be an occasion of national regret when a public servant who has given the greater part of his life to unselfish service passes away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Trotters | 8/27/1934 | See Source »

...country doctor while his old classmate George Roiter was becoming one of the biggest men in Oslo, head of the university, famed throughout Europe as a humane expert on international law. Since schooldays they had been friends and rivals. Hallem was self-centered, disagreeable, fiercely envious; Roiter brilliant, unselfish, easily preeminent. Twice Roiter had saved Hallem's life-once when he was publicly denounced for plagiarizing and had gone home to hang himself; again when Hallem had made a girl pregnant and she had died in an attempt at abortion. In their middle-age both had good wives, children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: In Dostoevsky's Steps | 6/25/1934 | See Source »

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