Word: morale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Secretary Hughes was the isolation statesman. Secretary Kellogg stood for academic peace. Secretary Stimson was the moral force man. Secretary Hull has a chance to go dowrn in U. S. diplomatic history as the world economist...
Although no official statement has been made, Harvard undergraduates may rest reasonably well assured that beer will not be sold in college dining halls. The moral implications of the sale of a "non-intoxicating" beverage have been only too prominent in the official mind; and since those bogies have been combined with a state law forbidding such sale to legal minors, it is safe to say that the administration will allow less vulnerable and consequently less scrupulous merchants on the Square to profit, without competition, from the Undergraduate Thirst...
...means of creating future national wealth. . . . I estimate that 250,000 men can be given temporary employment by early summer if you give me authority to proceed within the next two weeks. . . . This enterprise will pay dividends to the present and future generations. . . . More important will be the moral and spiritual value of such work. The overwhelming majority of unemployed Americans who are walking the streets and receiving private or public relief would infinitely prefer to work. We can take a vast army of these unemployed out into healthful surroundings...
...school buildings were "covered with ornaments stuck on with chewing gum." The Los Angeles Examiner said that it had analyzed mortar used in school buildings, found it one-third to one-half as strong as required by law. Another engineer, W. M. Bostock, was of the opinion that "no moral or legal responsibility is to be fixed. At the worst the builders were greedy and wanted a little too much building for their money...
...against Adolph Hitler and his treatment of Jews in Germany. The dictator is alleged to have been the moving spirit behind a persecution incredible in its extent and bitterness, and those who have been most active in dispensing figures and anecdotes have also neglected no opportunity to point the moral of a well adorned tale. Those apocryphal Germans who hacked the hands from helpless little Belgians have been resurrected, and in their new incarnation seem for more terrifying because they are far more plausible. It is easier to believe that Hitler summarily dispossessed Lion Feuchtwanger than it was to picture...