Word: morale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...want and poverty and the economic struggle between classes and nations, is ... a transitory and an unnecessary muddle. For the Western World already has the resources and the technique, if we could create the organization to use them, capable of reducing the Economic Problem, which now absorbs our moral and material energies, to a position of secondary importance." Meanwhile bankrupts and the white-collar unemployed can gather much information, some solace out of Keynes's canny croaks...
...reports yesterday afternoon indicate that China has expressed willingness to accept the peace terms offered by the powers, while Japan has rejected mediation quite definitely. This is only another indication that the Japanese are determined to wage what amounts to war in all but name against the advice and moral convictions of the whole civilized world...
...debts, Mr. Roosevelt maintains that they are "debts of honor" and therefore should be discharged at all costs. Perhaps what we need here is again a "little horse sense." "Debts of honor" is a nice sounding phrase, but it might be well to inquire whether our real moral duty is to collect these sacred obligations or to try to get the world back on its feet again and disregard obsolete catchwords in the process...
...further include thousands of acres of farm land, nine sawmills, 104 lumberyards, 292 miles of railroad, and the entire town of Longview, Wash. at the junction of the Columbia & Cowlitz rivers. With its bank, hotel, motion picture house, fire department, "Y," docks, tennis courts, schools, it is a model, moral settlement. Paternal & religious, Robert Alexander Long delights in the title of Founder. "Men in business today need many friends," is one of his maxims. By his side for 53 years Robert Long had someone who filled that need. It was his wife Ella whom he married the day he went...
...nation steeped in depression becomes introspective. Some of the evils which brought on the collapse are now becoming apparent to the more thoughtful. For ten years after the war America had been living without any standards behind which her complex civilization might seek refuge. The moral, economic, and social fabric of the country was shot through with shoddy. There were no foundations, no guiding principles, no goals to direct the forces which men had set at work. There was only a vast and orunte superstructure builded upon a pediment of strawless brick...