Word: altruism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ignorance of Latin American problems is not confined to Congressional circles. On every hand are heard oversimplified versions of "good-neighborliness" varying from the heights of altruism ("We will set the world an example of peaceful, democratic relations") to the opposite extreme of dollar diplomacy ("We want to sell them goods and ideas and stop Hitler from selling his"). Of the long-range political and economic complexities, little is heard. There is in the United States a superabundance of capital ready willing, and able to be invested. There is in south and Central America ample opportunity to put this money...
...Harvard Life. But it is the University's duty to discover if the aims of a high-minded minority are realized, if the drive has created dissension or solidarity in the student body. The University by the very nature of its dollar-for-dollar proposition, is testing student altruism: It must abide by the answer...
...their several ends. For instance, its humorous publication has this month posed the most serious problem to come from an undergraduate pen in some time. Perhaps contemplating the idealism that permeates the Christmas season, the author has hatched some pertinent observations on youth and the inevitable deterioration of its altruism. To these speculations it may be possible to append some tentative conclusions...
...later became a reporter, an editor of McClure's Magazine, author of a biography of his mother: "I could write a book about what Fauntleroy has been to me. I try to get away from it but I can't." Moral of Fauntleroy was the value of altruism. Vivian Burnett died last week of a heart attack just after he and a party of friends, sailing on Long Island Sound in his yawl Delight III, had rescued four people from a capsized sailboat...
Doubting Thomases suggested that there was more to the British sympathy for Bilbao than pure altruism for a besieged city. Vitally needed for Welsh steel mills, now on 24-hour schedules as part of Britain's rearmament, is iron ore from Basque mines. And Welsh farmers have long had a private arrangement with Basque potato growers. From carefully tended fields they ship high-priced seed potatoes to Bilbao twice a year, take back in exchange mature food potatoes, grown in Spain's warm and dry climate...