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Urged on by Julie, Cancy grew bolder. When Catfoot Grimes and an Italian storekeeper peddled their liquor to the Negroes, Cancy looked the other way -after pocketing a fat cut. When Doc Stanley found out, Cancy's pals ran him out of town. But Julie, greed and liquor got the better of Cancy in the end. Slowly, shrewdly, Editor Mabry and his son piled up the evidence against Cancy, worked painstakingly to win over one respectable citizen after another. Then they struck-in an editorial that staggered Carvell City and brings the story to a bloody...
...certainty to the production of things for use." But Ruml concedes that business has frequently brought this order only at the cost of the freedom of others. The reason lies in excesses of the very qualities most desirable in businessmen. Thus without regulation "initiative becomes arrogance; resourcefulness, cunning; efficiency, greed; tenacity, obstinacy; and willingness to take authority and responsibility, pride and lust for power...
Senator Clark continued reading: " 'They have soaked themselves in the rancid odor of capitalistic stupidity and greed. . . .'" With a note of triumph in his voice, the Senator asked: "Mr. MacLeish, do you think you would be able to bear, with your sensitive nostrils, standing in the same room with Ed Stettinius, Will Clayton, Mr. Grew and people like that...
...have just read with interest your account of the "Brotherly Greed" of Senators Reynolds, McKellar and Chandler (TIME, Aug. 28), who happily propose that the U.S. take permanent possession of Bermuda, Trinidad, Jamaica, the Bahamas and other British territory (not to mention numerous possessions of France, Holland, Russia, Mexico, Ecuador...
...Reynolds was aglow with brotherly greed. He continued: "The Ecuadorians are very fine people. I have found them to be very friendly persons who really appreciate our friendship. I believe they could be shown that it would be to their advantage for us to be the possessors of the Galapagos Islands...