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...bright-eyed, cultured gentleman of 63, Rollin Kirby classifies his liberalism as "glandular," by which he means he cannot cure it. He thinks Joseph Pulitzer was also a glandular liberal. Believing that most men are kindly, generous and fair, Cartoonist Kirby has made his reputation by mercilessly caricaturing meanness, greed and hypocrisy wherever he has found them. Because he sees these qualities most often in reactionary politicians and businessmen, he has lately been more & more at odds with the front-office policies of the increasingly conservative World-Telegram...
...survey of undergraduate greed yesterday played havoe with service in House Dining Halls, as waitresses were ordered to secure a signature for every second helping and every dish not included on the menu. The white, "No Charge" slips had then to be approved by the head waitress before the order could be served...
...Hubbards as people who "eat the earth." But she has not made them all of one piece: between the crude short-changer Oscar and his greatly aspiring sister is the difference between a rat and an eagle. Not instinctive, but icily calculating, is their family sense: the same greed which divides them among themselves unites them against others. Ben Hubbard perceives they are less a family than part of a race -a race of sharp-toothed, flourishing little foxes for whom the turning century promises a world of plunder...
...approached a crisis (see p. 17): ''The world cannot forever continue plunging from crisis to crisis. We must act before crisis ends in catastrophe. . . . God's living spirit calls each nation like each individual to its highest destiny and breaks down the barriers of fear and greed, of suspicion and haired...
...French Foreign Minister, D'Argenson, who reflects as he leaves the field that the French aristocracy had won only with the help of "the savage exiled Irish," that there could be no real victory until "men might learn to fight for themselves instead of for the confusion and greed of those who governed them...