Word: morale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Minister Carlos Saavedra Lamas cabled his Ambassador in Washington instructions to sue the U. S. Government for reparations for besmirching Argentinians' reputations. Holding that the U. S. Government was responsible for the actions of the Senate committee, he purported to show that a libel had been committed and "moral & mental damage" inflicted. In effect, he demanded that U. S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull discipline Washington's Senator Homer T. Bone for speaking carelessly of Argentina's Admiral Ismael Galindez. Protesting "our friendship for that great nation with which we have recently strengthened an old relationship...
...Mayor LaGuardia, a nonchurchgoing Protestant, was much less impressed by the moral points made against the lottery by excited clergymen than by the legal points made by cool-headed jurists who were positive the law could not last a week in the courts...
...Island, The Bronx Clergy Association and Liberal Episcopalian Dr. Walter Russell Bowie who wired: "It would be depth of unwisdom to give civic encouragement to that passion for gambling which can be so sinister in its personal and social consequences." The New York Presbytery called it "subversive to the morals of our people." The Greater New York Federation of Churches condemned it as "a measure which would carry incalculable moral costs...
...legalize birth control or liberalize divorce laws, had nothing to say publicly against lotteries. Their Church's attitude is that under proper circumstances gambling is not sinful. Indeed the Papal States used to run lotteries as do many Catholic nations today.* And to a realist there is slight moral difference between a cash lottery and a raffle such as many a church, Catholic and Protestant alike, employs to raise money for pious causes...
Like other Robinson narratives, Amaranth is a tale of moral issues. This time the scene is set in a shadowy country not unlike a New England intellectualization of Hell. It is the place to which men are condemned who inhabit "the wrong world"-preachers who should have been lawyers, businessmen who should have been artists. Principal figure is a mediocre painter who escaped from "the wrong world" by becoming a pump-manufacturer ("a spring-clean unimpeachable pump-builder"), then somehow relapsed. Saved from suicide and other tempting methods of flight by the mysterious figure of Amaranth, a symbolic embodiment...