Word: moral
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...garbage superintendent of trying to extort $5,000 from Bremerton's No. 1 Citizen, Edward Bremer, in blackmail over a girl. Released on $5,000 bail, Mayor Knabb was promptly greeted by a Better Bremerton League headed by the town's principal ministers, asked to "observe the moral laws as well as the civil laws." Babbled Jesse Knabb: "Aw, those pitiful ministers, one is a Holy Roller and the other is a dead beat. I'm going to start a recall against Purves. Why, these charges are practically nothing...
...Yale Law School professor, Yale University Press published a book of his called The Folklore of Capitalism. In it he said of the anti-trust laws that their actual result "was to promote the growth of industrial organizations by deflecting the attack on them into purely moral and ceremonial channels. . . . Men like Senator Borah founded political careers on the continuance of such crusades, which were entirely futile but enormously picturesque, and which paid big dividends in terms of personal prestige." Senator Borah was on the Senate Committee which three months ago approved Thurman Arnold's appointment as Assistant Attorney...
...What are we coming to, I say. For all anyone knows, these men may be moral perverts and as I remarked to my wife, they probably are. Imagine exposing our Youth to this kind of thing. It is American. It makes my blood bell...
...Tolstoy's War and Peace, war is essentially a moral struggle. From top to bottom of the army, each individual soldier is shown making his choice, determined by his sense of right & wrong, in moments of crisis. But in most World War novels, soldiers are shown caught in a vast impersonal military machine that operates blindly, automatically, uninfluenced by their individual actions. Simple privates or intellectual officers, they are alike in their helplessness and confusion: the machine of which they are part continues to operate regardless of their heroism or cowardice, their strength or weakness, their life or death...
...shining exception to this pattern of War fiction is Arnold Zweig's The Case of Sergeant Grischa. It is an old-fashioned moral study, and Author Zweig is almost the only War novelist for whom armed conflict is only a part of the war between good & evil that rages as fiercely when the guns are silent. Last week Author Zweig published the fourth volume of Grischa's moral story. A long and involved book called The Crowning of a King, it deals, superficially, with the intrigues of the German general staff over the selection of a king...