Word: self-interest
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Because State laws were weak or unenforced. Mrs. Kelley was one of the first to demand Federal legislation against child exploitation. Self-interest rather than high ideals caused organized labor to swing to her support, for every child put out of a job meant a new job for a grownup. Mrs. Kelley and the National Child Labor Committee lobbied and lobbied at Washington, finally in 1906 won a $50.000 appropriation for an investigation. It showed conditions just as bad as Mrs. Kelley expected. In 1912 the Federal Children's Bureau was created but it had no power...
...church, sent out by a church, the missionary is prone to conceive his task as primarily that of promoting this organization. His Board, as a rule, embodies and intensifies this conception; and the missionary is likely to be dominated by the expectations of his Board. . . . The trail of self-interest within the organization lies like the trail of the serpent over the missions of Asia within our purview...
...demonstrate for the benefit of visiting U. S. Senators and Representatives. What President Hoover had really sent Secretary Hurley out for was to learn whether this native clamor for freedom honestly arose from the people themselves or whether it was just an artificial reflection of the agitation by agricultural self-interest...
...Unprofitable venture." High-tariff Republicans in Congress could see nothing but the self-interest of foreign producers in these threats of tariff reprisals. Chairman Hawley of the House Ways & Means Committee voiced this congressional complaisance as follows...
...President Compton's inaugural: "There is a very real danger, for industry is competing with universities for the best men, often taking them and then perhaps later finding fault with the institution for not giving its students a first-class training. ... The industries must, for their own ultimate self-interest, see to it that the institute is financially able...