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...companies and men got together to buy gasoline from independent refiners in the spot markets of east Texas and Oklahoma; by contract the price of gasoline they sold to big jobbers was determined by the price that they themselves paid in the spot markets ; gradually, by "golden stairs to greed and avarice." they raised the price of the small quantities of gasoline they bought from the independents, thereby raising the price of the large quantities of the gasoline they sold to the jobbers, which in turn raised midwest retail prices...
...about the State of the Nation. Referring to "the prevailing belief that wages should he reduced and prices raised," he declared: "The people are getting a good education in the fallacy of the economic rule now in force. Whenever prices go down and wages up, benefits accrue. Eliminate the greed for money and substitute a little zeal for production and normal conditions soon will return." The liberal New York World-Telegram commented that these sentiments "just can't be matched for durable and unassailable common sense...
...Union. Surrounded by microphones, against a background formed by Vice President Garner and House Speaker William Bankhead (see cut), the President proceeded to cover assorted aspects of the Union's condition without concentrating on any one. His address lacked the fire of his historic denunciation of "entrenched greed" in 1936, the amiability of his complacent curtain-raiser to the Supreme Court fight a year ago. Its 4,000 words had, instead, a special quality of earnest persuasiveness combined with that vigorous self assurance which is characteristically Rooseveltian. His major points...
...Slogum House, Mari Sandoz sets herself the gigantic task of making this unnatural mother humanly understandable, is kept from doing so by Gulla Slogum's many crimes, her lack of all familiar human characteristics except greed. An oldfashioned, 400-page chronicle, slow-moving despite its many melodramatic episodes, Slogum House is set against the same brutal Nebraska-pioneer background pictured in Mari Sandoz' Old Jules, which won the Atlantic Monthly $5,000 Non-Fiction Prize in 1935. That unsparing biography of the author's father showed how he had been hardened by years of struggle against neighbors...
...Innocent peoples and nations are being cruelly sacrificed to a greed for power and supremacy which is devoid of all sense of justice and humane consideration...