Word: morale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...action which was roundly condemned as a moral violation of the Plan's permanent character, Potomac Electric's rate of return was reduced by the Public Service Commission from 7½% to 7% and the company's share of the excess profits pared down...
...have not the standards, intellectual or moral, which I desire in the periodicals read by my family. I shall quote three examples from your issue...
...quarter columns and a picture to one of the most insidiously dangerous pastimes offered to men even in this period of depraved consumption. ... I find no news value, but simple pornography in the article "No. 1 Stripper" on p. 24, under Theatre. This is the moral lapse...
...Dole "The stark fact before us is that great numbers still remain unemployed. . . . The lessons of history, confirmed by the evidence immediately before me, show conclusively that continued dependence upon relief induces a spiritual and moral distintegration fundamentally destructive to the national fiber. To dole out relief in this way is to administer a narcotic, a subtle destroyer of the human spirit. It is inimical to the dictates of sound policy. ... I am not willing that the vitality of our people be further sapped by the giving of cash, of market baskets, of a few hours of weekly work cutting...
...enclosing a clipping from the Washington Herald of January 7th anent the new football coach. The article is appreciative of Mr. Harlow, but it is with a shade of regret that I note that in a moral way his aims, as expressed in the article, as well as those of the lamented Haughton, and, indeed, of Harvard, seem to lack something of the old Puritanical high-mindedness that was went to be associated with Harvard and New England. Clifford R. Richards...