Word: morale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...commitment. Teacher Friendly called Helen a moron, offered additional reasons why she should be sterilized: "The girl herself may turn out all right, but I don't think we want any of her progeny in this community . . . not the kind of stuff that makes good citizens . . . shiftless . . . little moral stamina though she knows the difference between right and wrong." She said that the family is "low-brow," and "riff-raff. . . . Neighbors complain that the children are a nuisance with their marauding habits and the family is unspeakably dirty...
...Life of a Great Newspaper System") depicting the exploits of Scripps-Howard newspapers, had cause for rejoicing last week. Their chain's Columbus, Ohio Citizen had performed exactly the sort of feat on which Scripps-Howard prides itself most highly: ousted a probate judge for "gross immorality, moral turpitude and misconduct in office...
...into the White House the U. S. dream was made flesh. "After An drew Jackson every boy was being told he might be President of the United States." The North began to hustle. "Business ceased to be a mere occupation which must be carried on in accordance with the moral code. It had itself become part of that code. Money-making having become a virtue, it was no longer controlled by the virtues, but ranked with them, and could be weighed against them when any conflict occurred." As the U. S. stretched itself the booster was born. "As he lost...
...obligation which one would wish not to escape. The word itself, of ancient use, has persisted through the centuries to define the triumph of the soul of man over his environment. Thomas Chalmers, the great Scottish divine, in his treatise on the adaptation of external nature to the moral and intellectual constitution of man, speaks of an "elate independence of the soul." That independence is more difficult to declare and maintain in extremes either of want or luxury. The distresses of today or the anxieties for the morrow on the one hand, and the surfeits of the senses...
...concluded the article with the statement "The Navy thanked Depression." It is perfectly true that the Navy had only 45 deserters for the fiscal year 1931, but it attributes this record to "selective recruiting" rather than Depression. A deserter is the type of man who hasn't the moral character to live up to his obligations and it cannot be expected of a man of this type to "look before he leaps...