Word: unselfishness
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...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...
...Presidency or the success of his program, he would unhesitatingly choose the latter. No higher tribute could be paid a U. S. politician in an election year. That No. 1 appraiser of U. S. selfishness, Post master General James A. Farley, once said: ". . . Cordell Hull is the most unselfish man I ever met." Agreement Disagreement. The saint like man in the blue serge suit, whose only physical exercise is occasional putting-practice, an occasional game of croquet, has long been an adept in the most torturing of all mental gymnastics - foreign trade statistics...
...provoker of unselfish laughter, On Pilgrimage is a good book and a national possession...
...Colonel Lindbergh, for his brave andl unselfish efforts to assure peace for our country, certainly is the Man of the Year...