Word: morale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Grateful for such moral support from NRA, President Sloan promptly thanked the General for thus "definitely spiking propaganda [that NRA and the Government are behind the strike] effectively used in many mill centers." Strike Generalissimo Gorman quietly pointed out that the agreement at issue had begun with the following words: "This agreement does not prejudice the right to strike...
...palatial colonial house in the southeast corner of the Yard, home of George Herbert Palmer '64. Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy and Civil Polity, emeritus, for more than fifty years, but which has been unoccupied since his death on May 7, 1933, will be used once more as a residence by an officer of the University, when Richard Mott Gummere, new Chairman of the Committee on Admissions and lecture in Latin occupies it this fall...
...endorsed by the rest of the Paris papers. At this point Pernod Fils is supposed to have paid off the publisher, whereupon he retracted as best he could, but too late, as soon thereafter the Government took advantage of the public temper and banned the sale of absinthe. The moral of the story seems to be that soon thereafter the publisher was caught in another blackmailing scheme and sent to prison for a term of years...
...addition to the mishap to Yankee's jib, she had been handicapped by a shift of wind that favored Rainbow. Her managing owner, Chandler Hovey, had just finished saying that he thought her showing amounted to a moral victory when he heard the news that Rainbow had been chosen. Said he: "It seems incredible." Aboard Vanderbilt's yacht Vara his guests did a war dance of delight...
Such facts only reach the Soviet public with a moral attached. Pravda, in reporting the Georgian grafter's arrest last week, urged all Bolsheviks to heed a recent warning by Dictator Stalin that "no Communist must think because of his position that he is above the law." To emphasize that this time Stalin means business, Pravda carried the news that "no mercy will be shown to embezzlers of the people's property, no matter who they...