Word: mans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...man laugh at morality; but let all men be free to laugh at human posturings...
...chief gripe, however, is the ridicule that has been heaped upon a man who has the courage to speak his mind. This one fact is the surest sign that we are all headed for a moral disintegration...
...doubted Franklin Roosevelt's sincerity, but neither was anyone in the slightest doubt as to where lay the sympathy, the potent human partisanship, of this President of the United States. He was against Germany, against the aggressor, against totalitarianism, against Adolf Hitler the dictator and Adolf Hitler the man perhaps mad. His every word henceforth would be weighed in the light of his own injunction, which he now laid upon the Press, to stick rigidly to the facts because "that's best for our own nation-and for civilization." His deeds and those of his subordinates would...
...man or woman thoughtlessly or falsely talk of America sending its armies to European fields." (He did not say such armies might not eventually go to such fields...
...ears this was the most striking sentence in the broadcast. It was underscored by contrast with Woodrow Wilson's words in 1914 ("We must be impartial in thought as well as in action. . . ."). Noble was the Wilsonian formula, and also nonsense, for no thinking man can fail to have convictions about the merits of causes which plunge the world into war. Realistic was the Rooseveltian formula, and also dangerous, for it invited Americans to condemn Hitler as loudly as they liked, possibly a first step to fighting him with arms...