Word: selfishness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since the U.S. cannot dodge foreign responsibilities, Flanders added, its objective should be the "material prosperity of the American citizen and the preservation of his freedom." This isn't really selfish, he said, because the United States could do little for others in a depression...
Partly Moral, Partly Selfish. The Marquot workers live in pleasant cottages for which they pay the company a nominal rent, work in spotlessly clean factory buildings. There are hot and cold showers (available to wives & children on Saturday), a hospital, a library. Gustave Marquot, who inherited the 90-year-old family business last year, is a fairly typical member of Le Centre des Jeunes Patrons (Center of Young Employers), which is trying to build a brighter future for free enterprise in France. The Young Employers are against the predatory capitalism of the past, but they also want to keep France...
...produced last year's whipping boys - the 80th Congress and "selfish interests"-but he had freshened up the lines. Now, he declared, there was a "scare-word" campaign. "The people want public housing for low-income families," Truman said. "The selfish interests . . . think it will cut down on their own income so they call it 'collectivism' . . . The people want fair laws for labor. The selfish interests . . . mistakenly fear that their profits will be reduced, so they call that 'statism' . . . We don't care what they call it . . . The people want a fair program...
...selfish interests don't know-they don't care-what these words mean. They are using those words only because they want to turn the American people against the programs which the people want, and need, and voted for. We can afford them, we ought to have them, and we will have them...
Asked to identify the "selfish interests" who were using scare-words, Truman turned suddenly coy. He could not identify them at present, he said, but a little further along in the campaign he might identify some individuals and some special interests. "Which campaign?" a newsman shot back. The 1950 campaign, said Truman with a grin. The campaign always begins on Labor Day of the year before the election takes place-didn't he know that...