Word: morale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which govern the reception of women in college dormitories have been intelligently revised in the past year. But the machinery through which room permissions are secured still remains cumbersome and needlessly involved, a sort of haunting forget-me-not inherited from an age and a people who spiced their moral restrictions with a good New England imagination. In all the Houses, save Adams and Dunster, for instance, it is necessary to procure such permissions from the Senior Tutor or House Secretary twenty-four hours before the artful female is to inject her touch of potential scandal between sober Georgian walls...
...Premier Barrios the President handed a decree dissolving the Cortes "on moral grounds" and setting Nov. 19 as the date for a general election. Promptly the powerful Socialist trade unions threatened to declare a general strike in Madrid...
...Comfort delivered in Haverford's tent an earnest, soothing address of the sort without which no academic convocation is complete. Calling Haverford's new plan not a new goal but a new technique, he said U. S. education needs no revamping: "What the country needs is ... a moral quickening ... a stiffer backbone...
...Campbell, who promptly pleaded not guilty to the indictment and was released on $1,000 bail because no moral turpitude was involved in the charge, was thoroughly aware of the risks he was running in this contest with the Government. If convicted, he could be disbarred, fined $10,000, imprisoned for ten years. But he was, he intimated, making a fight for his Constitutional rights and "if I have to go to jail, I don't care...
...Pennsylvania coal strike sharply raised the issue of Labor's moral obligation as a "partner" with Government and Industry in the recovery program. Last summer soft coal miners first struck when operators tried to thwart their unionization under NRA. To the coal fields President Roosevelt dispatched as his personal representative Deputy NRAdministrator McGrady who won a strike truce by promising the miners a "square deal'' from the White House. Out of that strike was born the National Labor Board under New York's Senator Wagner. Last month the Pennsylvania miners broke the truce to force...