Word: morale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Arbitrarily reduce the content of the gold dollar? Very well. What is the moral difference between a 30% and a 50% repudiation of an obligation? . . . Why not go the whole length and authorize complete repudiation by the debtor class? Why not follow the example of Germany and start the printing presses without cease and then repudiate our own currency and use it for wallpaper...
...Simultaneously the Salvationist has been ascertaining to his own satisfaction that his Mae means well. By the time he turns out to be the famous detective he has disposed of such of Mae's dubious companions as she has left alive. Off they go for the parson, the moral apparently being that the Lord helps those who express themselves...
...really in love with him, and he believes himself to be in the same condition. One feels it would be much easier to doff the chain of virtue which Miss Inescort wears so self-consciously and skip off with the publisher, instead of being so deadly moody and moral about it all. Serious women are apt to be irritating anyway. Secretly one admires people who are so fearlessly frank, but when one sees them in action, they look silly...
...received a carefully typewritten letter. The printed head was that of the Paris branch of the ETHNICAL DEFENSE LEAGUE OF NEWFOUNDLANDERS AND GUATEMALANS whose New York headquarters was given as "43 72nd Ave. N. W. 2." The E. D. L. N. G. appealed to France's legislators for moral support of a petition about to be presented to President-elect Roosevelt. It commenced...
...explain and spread its gospel. Best explanation so far is that of Japanese Delegate to the League of Nations Yosuke Matsuoka, who represents Japan in Geneva this week and recently declared: "Japan can offer spirituality to America and to the entire Western world. . . . Japanism is a world communism of moral responsibility, ideals, obligations and honor, unlimited by time, unbounded by distance or area and irrespective of race or nationality. . . . No individual has arisen in the 20th century, no nation has achieved the leisure to lead and inspire. . . . Japan can achieve this task...