Word: moral
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nation be polled before entering a foreign war. To oppose such a movement would argue-as loud Representative Hamilton Fish Jr. was already shouting last week-that the Roosevelt Administration is war-minded. To let it pass would tie down the Government so tight that not even its moral weight could quickly be thrown into the lists to preserve world peace...
...able, forceful General Juan Yague, who directed the successful Rightist offensive last spring. This meant that General Yague, relieved of his command-rumored even to have been put in jail-because of an "indiscreet" speech at Burgos, opposing civilian bombings, had been fully reinstated. If there was a moral to the tale, it was that the Rightists had been obliged to recognize the superior abilities of a general who thought bombing civilians useless as well as immoral-an opinion shared by many military men who regard winning a war as more important than killing people...
...London Times last fortnight, 33 M.P.s dispatched a statement approving the Oxford Group's "crusade for moral rearmament which appears to be spreading rapidly." Signers included not only Conservative committee members and two onetime Lord Mayors, but Laborites like Arthur Henderson, J. R. Clynes (onetime Home Secretary), John McGovern. Last week in the Times much the same approval was expressed by an even weightier assemblage of 17 names. Among them: Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, the Marquess of Salisbury, Field Marshal Sir William Birdwood, Lord Chamberlain the Earl of Clarendon, Admiral of the Fleet the Earl of Cork & Orrery...
...Interlaken-it w'as careful not to ignore the lowly-born. One delegate to the assembly was Labor Leader Todd Sloan, 62, onetime London dock hand, to Oxford Groupers a "radical agitator" now reformed. In clearest terms he stated Buchmanism's new, grown-up policy: "In the moral rearmament of the Oxford Group I have found some common sense with real fire behind it-not the mean-minded revolution of the changed life in the individual, which never goes beyond personal convenience, but a broad evolution which changes a nation's moral climate. This new evolution...
...Collective agreements rest upon moral force rather than legal compulsion." Neither side wants law to back it up. Exception: wages (but only wages) in the weaving section of the cotton textile industry; in 1934, both sides sought an Act of Parliament which froze rates they had already collectively agreed upon. Cause: chiseling by unorganized employers and weavers...