Word: paramount
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...argument, and in suiting their own argument closely to that of their opponents. Yale's essential proposition was that though organization of labor has been necessary, and has as a matter of fact resulted in some good, yet on the whole it has tended to put its own interests paramount to those of the employer, the non-union man, and the public at large. Harvard answered this by arguing that the good which trade-unionism has aimed at could not have been accomplished without some encroachment on the liberty of the employer. The betterment of the laboring man's condition...
...conclusion it was shown that the chief significance of this argument is not so much the evidence of disregard for the interests of individuals as the evidence of the existence within our country of an organization which manifests a spirit which seeks to make its rights paramount to the rights of all other parties. Any organization manifesting such a spirit cannot show a tendency other than detrimental to the best interests of our country...
Referring to the speech of Rabenold. Binkerd said that the affirmative position does not deny the necessity for organization of labor, but denies the benefit of such organization as has existed for the last twenty years. This existent kind or organization has placed its own interests paramount to those of the general community...
...addressing an audience of students. He then said in part: Civilization may be defined as the harmonious development of the human race physically, mentally, and morally. Of the three elements in civilization I am satisfied that the moral element is not only an important element but is the paramount element. We must judge the nations as we judge the individuals, for there is no limitation upon a moral principle...
...thinking. Indirectly through his pupils, and directly through his writings, he did much to educate public opinion; and he would have done more, had not his desire to enlarge his sphere of influence--for he was not without ambition--been held in check by the abiding belief that his paramount duty was to the institution into whose service he had entered...