Word: morale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While quite properly such dailies as the New York Times and Herald Tribune are preserved to represent the moderate, reasoned influences at work in the nation today, intellectual or moral qualms should not allow it to neglect the most typical of the opposite forces...
...Chronicle's conclusions: The condition of Jefferson County's lowly 1% is beyond the help of relief agencies. Long-range rehabilitation, geared to individual cases, is the only remedy. "They need education not only in the accepted manner but on moral codes of civilization of which they are not a part." Treatment indicated: Sterilization, provided by a bill passed by the Georgia House and pending before the Senate...
BRAVE MR. BUCKINGHAM - Dorothy Kunhardt - Harcourt, Brace ($1). A toy Indian made of Nugg could always say, in spite of calamities, "THAT DIDN'T HURT." Nonsense with a moral, for children (and adults) by the author of Junket Is Nice...
Aside from the danger to a none too firm credit position, the veto could and should be invoked on moral and social grounds. No group has ever been so favored and pampered as the bloc of veterans and pseudo-veterans. Some historians say that the present liberality, graft, and falsification makes post Civil War governments look like pikers. The government is now spending an average of nearly three thousand dollars for each soldier killed or wounded in action--compared to less than 25 dollars in any wartime nation. Courageous leadership is absolutely necessary if the nation is to be saved...
What this country needs is a counter-falter and murderer, a perfect criminal, secret, unscrupulous, ruthless, yet with high moral purpose. Given this un-catchable, unknown Robin Hood, America's problems of recovery, reform, and revolution would be solved...