Word: selfishly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...H.A.A., which is naturally anxious under the present methods of making up its budget to produce as good a football team as possible in order to increase the gate receipts, which must support the whole athletic program. Yet it is at the same time unfair to attribute totally selfish motives to the Athletic Association in this case...
...There must be an end to a conduct in banking and in business which too often has given to a sacred trust the likeness of callous and selfish wrongdoing. Small wonder that confidence languishes, for it thrives only on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection, on unselfish performance...
...evidence is overwhelming that the Depression has been exploited by short-sighted and selfish employers who pay wages unreasonably low and not at all commensurate with the service rendered. Instances have come to my attention of the payment to women of wages as low as $4 for a full work week. . . . Such trade practices are a source of unfair competition to firms who seek to maintain decent standards...
Said Dr. John Kelley Norton of Teachers College, Columbia: "Teachers will oppose the efforts of any selfish group to create a peasant class and impose a peasant education in the U. S. . . . We are going to have an organization that can give blow for blow and ask no quarter...
...Louisiana, beet growers in Utah, were told that duty-free sugar from the Philippines was ruining their business. Philippine cocoanut oil was competing with domestic cottonseed oil. Manila hemp seemed to be hurting U. S. cordage producers. These miscellaneous economic units were pulled together in one grand and wholly selfish drive to put the Philippines outside the U. S. tariff wall by means of making them a free and foreign country. Louisiana's loud Senator Long frankly exclaimed; "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. That applies to the cotton for the Senator from Mississippi [Harrison...