Word: morale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...decades before Prohibition, those lifelong teetotalers John D. Rockefeller Jr. and his father gave the Anti-Saloon League their stanch moral support and $350,323.67. When he declared for Repeal in 1932, Mr. Rockefeller by no means meant that he was quitting his long war on liquor. Having despaired at last of temperance by statute, he set his agents searching the world for other methods of attack. To Russia he sent his old friend Everett Colby, a suave, engaging onetime New Jersey State Legislator and Republican National Committeeman, who captained Brown's football team when Mr. Rockefeller...
...Sanctions Mean War!" Such action is called in League parlance "invoking sanctions." In law a sanction is any measure applied to a wrongdoer to make him comply with what the community has made right and legal. Sanctions contemplated by the Covenant of the League are of four kinds: 1) moral and diplomatic measures, such as recalling all diplomats accredited to the wrong-doing State; 2) financial and economic measures, such as refusing further credit; 3) international boycott, to deprive the wrongdoer of all trade; and 4) force, or the declaration of war on the wrongdoer by League States...
...scholarships are awarded on the basis of (1) scholastic and literary abilities, (2) moral qualities, (3) force of character and leadership, and (4) physical vigor. Since the committee is looking for men who will excel in some particular field, intellect and character will receive more emphasis than physical vigor, which does not limit the field to Varsity athletes...
Another dignitary who was on hand was Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad of University of London, onetime John Locke Scholar at Oxford, famed moral philosopher (Common Sense Ethics, Common Sense Theology, Mind and Matter, etc.). When newshawks asked him what he thought about the firewalking, Philosopher Joad said he was not prepared to make any observations for less than five guineas...
...outside of the building; over roofs and down fire escapes, along mad, narrow ledges and into rooms (occupied or not, we didn't know)." Despite such pranks, Mabel drew a line in her relation ship with men that seems to have been established less out of deference to moral ity than by her own fitful moods and fears...