Word: unselfishness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile in Missouri there was much bewilderment as the motive for Senator Hawes's crusading passion for Philippine independence. The question was not a live political issue there. His friends ascribed three reasons: 1) an original human and unselfish interest in freeing the Philippines; 2) publicity accruing to him as the leader of a Cause; 3) promptings of U. S. beet sugar interests which want to shut out the Philippine product. In Washington last week Governor General Davis' annual report on the Philippines was made public. He declared that, during the 1930 Depression, the islands had been saved...
Barnard College in Manhattan announced last week that it had accepted a bequest of $3,000, income of which will go annually to that Barnard senior who "has given conspicuous evidence of unselfishness during her college course." Donor of the fund is the late Mrs. Ella Fitzgerald Bryson of Manhattan (Barnard 1894) who wished so to honor her late husband, unselfish Frank Gilbert Bryson...
Barnard trustees at first hesitated to accept the prize money. They wondered how their most unselfish girl might be discovered. Barnard's Student Council suggested that the prize should go every year to the senior who has given most willingly her time and service to her college, the girl to be chosen at a meeting of her class, with nominations open, ballots secret...
...history of the Republic . . . has rendered more sincere, more unselfish service than the present President of the United States. Rising in the morning at 7 o'clock . . . into his office before 9 o'clock . . . then to lunch . . . and all afternoon chained to his desk like a slave, working for America as he honestly and sincerely believes to be to its interest. "Then to dinner . . . then to bed; and they tell me that even in the night this man, unfaithful to America as some are saying, awakens and works in his bed for an hour or two upon...
...dignity and their intense respectability. They cannot destroy entirely the sense of humor that is characteristic of legionaires, and they will learn, among other things, that the Legion has kept faith with the disabled veteran and his dependents, that in its more than 10,000 posts it is giving unselfish aid to communities, states and nation, and that it is a mighty patriotic force that has served and will continue to serve this country well...