money-getting

“There is not in the world a more ignoble character than the mere money-getting American, insensitive to every duty, regardless of every principle, bent only on amassing a fortune.”

Lance Mannion: 2009

It is a good “money-getting nose, a good commercial nose, and perhaps the latter term would be an apt secondary designation for it,” since its owner may attain a weighty “purse” but not an “exalted” intellectuality.

Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

But merchants and traders are cowardly rulers at best; they grunt and grub all their days in the trough of money-getting, and I have swung back to aristocracy, if you please.

Chapter 37 2010

It is a good “money-getting nose, a good commercial nose, and perhaps the latter term would be an apt secondary designation for it,” since its owner may attain a weighty “purse” but not an “exalted” intellectuality.

Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

“There is not in the world a more ignoble character than the mere money-getting American, insensitive to every duty, regardless of every principle, bent only on amassing a fortune.”

Always the resentments directed at the wrong target 2009

The citizens of the United States must effectively control the mighty commercial forces which they themselves have called into being… The absence of effective state, and, especially, national, restraint upon unfair money-getting has tended to create a small class of enormously wealthy and economically powerful men, whose chief object is to hold and increase their power.11

Winner-Take-All Politics Jacob S. Hacker 2010

The citizens of the United States must effectively control the mighty commercial forces which they themselves have called into being… The absence of effective state, and, especially, national, restraint upon unfair money-getting has tended to create a small class of enormously wealthy and economically powerful men, whose chief object is to hold and increase their power.11

Winner-Take-All Politics Jacob S. Hacker 2010

Joy sat on every countenance, and there was a glad, almost fierce, intensity in every eye, that told of the money-getting schemes that were seething in every brain and the high hope that held sway in every heart.

LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010

The citizens of the United States must effectively control the mighty commercial forces which they themselves have called into being… The absence of effective state, and, especially, national, restraint upon unfair money-getting has tended to create a small class of enormously wealthy and economically powerful men, whose chief object is to hold and increase their power.11

Winner-Take-All Politics Jacob S. Hacker 2010

The citizens of the United States must effectively control the mighty commercial forces which they themselves have called into being… The absence of effective state, and, especially, national, restraint upon unfair money-getting has tended to create a small class of enormously wealthy and economically powerful men, whose chief object is to hold and increase their power.11

Winner-Take-All Politics Jacob S. Hacker 2010