Word: moral
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just as this man has surrendered his prerogative to determine the contents of his products on a so-called moral basis he, and his counterparts in other companies, have surrendered the right to determine the contents of their products on a political basis to nine Congressmen sitting on the House Committee for Un-American Activities...
...they interested in the moral and spirit ual uplift of our country? Are their lives indicating this interest...
Last week, people with their ears close to the ground could hear a shifting of forces on the question of U.M.T. The moral objectors to U.M.T. were getting some unexpected, underground support...
...moral objectors were already out in the open. They were labor leaders, church leaders, many educators (but not all), Military Analyst Hanson Baldwin, Physicist Albert Einstein, and such groups as the National Council Against Conscription. The council, in a pamphlet endorsed by Einstein, argued that U.M.T. would further a military influence which they saw already creeping into too many phases of U.S. life, including even the Boy Scouts of America. U.M.T., they argued, ran counter to the nation's traditions and expressed ideals. U.M.T. would be interpreted by the world as a warlike threat...
Then Hoover struck right at the heart of the plan. He would limit ERP strictly to a 15-months proposition. Said he: "Even a moral commitment to a four-year program is unwise...