Word: selfishly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...informed opinion . . . that Herbert Hoover among Republicans everywhere is the preference of the rank and file. It is and will be our purpose to expose the selfish character of certain favorite-son and other insincere movements calculated to defeat the will of the people...
That the older generation sacrificed the younger by its blind, selfish prejudice in bringing about the World War, only to continue in its folly when the war was over, is the theme of "Merchants of Glory", playing at the Repertory Theatre. It is a cynical attitude, but the cynicism is of a sort that stimulates thought, and the attitude is splendidly sustained throughout the play, relieved by humor and exaggeration, but not once betrayed by sickening sentimental ability...
...Stuart finds nothing in the Chinese revolution that is not reasonable, for he says that a passionate nationalism is struggling to throw off the selfish rule of warlords, and that the important thing is to help Young China to keep faith in itself...
...Chemical Foundation Inc.,* who, in addressing the Salesmen's Association of the American Chemical Industry at the Machinery Club in New York last week, demanded that American banking interests "as good Americans . . . give thought to the matters at stake when they are called upon for foreign loans." "Selfish Bankers." Dr. Herty, his wrath mounting at contemplation of this "foreign menace to U. S. peace and prosperity," asked the chemical salesmen: "Are our bankers simply middlemen or brokers whose only thought is the commission they want. . . ?" He instanced this financiering as an example of how U. S. foreign loans strengthen...
...plane on which every man looks out for himself and cares not at all what happens to his neighbor. It altruistic motives are fundamentally lacking in the character of the individual he is usually forced to a realization of the great purpose of social service through his purely selfish interests. Every manufacturer and employer of labor knows that he must take an interest in his employees' welfare as an insurance on his own success. That such selfish interests alone should actuate welfare work is to be deplored...