Word: morale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Supreme Court, by 5-4 decision, denied U. S. citizenship to two Canadians, Rev. Douglas Clyde Macintosh, professor of theology in Yale Divinity School, Wartime chaplain, and Marie Averill Bland, Wartime nurse. Professor Macintosh announced that before bearing arms for the U. S., he should prefer to mull over moral causes. Miss Bland would not promise to bear arms at all. The majority of the Court solemnly pronounced: ". . . We are a Christian people. . . . But we are also a nation with the duty to survive . . . whose government must go forward upon the assumption . . . that unqualified allegiance to the nation and submission...
...convicted of a part in the Kahahawai murder. U. S. residents might deplore the stupidity of her alleged crime and its bungling methods but most of them at heart fully sympathized with her desperation in behalf of her daughter's honor and were ready to give her their moral support. Last week no less a per son than Admiral William Veazie Pratt, Chief of Naval Operation in Washington seemed to give Lieut. Massie a friendly pat on the shoulder when he declared...
...plain fact the University's "regularly followed principle" is to cancel specific gifts by increasing appropriations to other departments. Practically, it divides its general funds in accordance with greatest need. That is the natural outcome of the logical insoluble contradiction between the claims of general University welfare and the moral claims of those who give unrestricted funds...
...effect they have produced justifies special emphasis. The whole-hearted support which he enjoys in India is impressive in itself, but the reception which he, although its avowed enemy, received as a visitor to England, seems like an even more remarkable instance of the triumph of a moral ideal...
Born in Montreal, son of a French Canadian cobbler, Quebec's new Archbishop was ordained in Ottawa. He became superior of St. Joseph Scholasticate, where he taught philosophy, canonical law, moral theology. Vastly erudite, he taught also at the University of Ottawa, became dean of its theological faculty in 1929. Ottawa knew him as its "Good Father," a member of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate, founder of several houses of retreat, a tall, spare cleric who lends ascetic dignity to the affairs of his church...