Word: morale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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University officials yesterday refused to say definitely what would be down with the house in the Yard in which G. B. Palmer '64, late Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and civil Polity, Emeritus, lived for the last fifty years...
...world, why are we going off the gold standard? Foreign governments could withdraw less than $700,000,000 of our gold, which would leave us an ample fund. . . . The suggestion that we may devalue the gold dollar 50% means national repudiation. It means dishonor! It is im- moral! . . . There never was a necessity for a gold embargo, for making statutory criminals of citizens who may please to take their property in gold out of banks. . . . "If there were need to go off the gold standard, very well, I would say let us go off. But there has been no need...
There appears only one possible flaw in this evolution of business hegemony over politics. City politicians, already tired of the moral dictates of the banking groups, have looked to the federal government for aid on more be lenient terms. But such a policy would be disastrous for good government. The cash reserves of the R.F.C. would answer the dreams of the most exacting political pilferers. Furthermore, a system of federal control on how and where the money should be spent would be virtually impossible. Whatever the immediate stakes of the current crisis may be, the burdening of the federal government...
...though they can hardly improve the rather inconvenient Renaissance Hall. But the very inconvenience of that hall may prove mortal to future productions; the use of the Geography Institute might be more acceptable to those who are vulnerable to drafts and had ventilation. Hans Sachs would point the further moral that now that Harvard has a chapel, a Geography Institute, a business school, and seven well-run hotels, it might well replace Sanders Theater as the last word in auditoria...
...asked Manufacturers Trust Co.. headed by indefatigably public-spirited Harvey Dow Gibson, to take over the Harriman's assets and promptly pay depositors in full-"without risk" to itself for it was reported that the Treasury intended to hold the members of the Clearing House to their moral obligation. No Harriman came forward like the Cones to rescue depositors: on the day of Mr. Woodin's announcement, Joseph Wright Harriman, ex-chairman of the bank, was arraigned in court (carried in on a stretcher, wearing a derby hat) for making false entries on the bank...