Word: morale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...provisions of the law for double assessment are plainly stated. Mrs. Couzens and I believe that the moral obligation is plain and we do not desire to avail ourselves of any technical or other reasons for not paying the assessment...
...sharp distinction should be made between the carrier and the "newsie." The newsie, an "independent merchant," hawks his papers at all hours on the street, is subject to physical and moral evil. States and municipalities could oversee him. but hardly any city does an effective job of it. The carrier of morning papers is also a problem, when he is a 10-year-old, getting out of bed at 3 a.m. to serve his route. In contrast, there is little to be said against boys acting as carriers of afternoon papers in residential districts, and much in favor...
...kingly way," said Marshal Muto when he set up his Changchun Govern ment last year, "is to guide the policy of Manchukuo in a spirit identical with the glorious regime of benevolence and justice peculiar to our imperial destiny to control the moral and spiritual advance of the world...
...wife, "Mother" Divine, were said to be in Richmond, Va. In charge was John F. Selkridge, Father Divine's Bishop. The Newark police promptly declared the Divine Heaven a disorderly house, although the resident blackamoors of the cult slept in segregated dormitories and there was no question of moral turpitude. All the cultists were turned out. Black Bishop Selkridge and four others were taken to the station house, held in bond...
...English pound. He offered to convert at a rate of $3.85-thus giving a premium of one dollar in every pound to bondholders willing to convert. This premium, Mr. Chamberlain told the House of Commons, would be paid because of His Majesty's Government's "moral obligation" to compensate holders of the bonds injured by the U. S. Congress' cancellation of their "gold clause." Up from a Labor bench popped Sir Stafford Cripps. "This is the first time," he shouted, "that the Government have sought to convince themselves by ingenious arguments that we ought to pay more...