Word: morale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...neither the Constitution nor Congress made arms-bearing a requirement of citizenship, the Chief Justice protested: "When one's belief collides with the power of the State, the latter is supreme within its sphere and submission or punishment follows. But, in the forum of conscience, duty to a moral power higher than the State has always been maintained. . . . If such a man is to be barred, it should be in unequivocal terms and not in such a way as to give admission to a host far less worthy...
...moral side, Russia's Lubimov pointed out that Tsarist Russia exported nearly twice as much wheat as her nearest competitor, and that no one called this morally wrong. Today Soviet Russia cannot by the wildest excess of dumping export as much wheat as her largest competitor, which, of course, is Canada.* Therefore, in Moscow's view, whatever Soviet Russia does or can do in the way of wheat exportation, she will be not less, but more generous to her competitors than Tsarist Russia...
...acts the virgin is enamored of a wayward novelist. Her fiance had hoped that the novelist would shock and all but seduce the little girl, scare her into his secure arms. There are a few hitches to the scheme, but the plan ultimately works. Mr. Harris' unwholesome moral seems to be that it really made no difference with whom his heroine mated, so long as she was bedded. Spectators who are revolted by the "morning after" scene which follows the hasty nuptials and terminates the play, can only wonder, as Funnyman Robert Charles Benchley once...
...this growth and commotion at Las Vegas the Federal Government eyed with stern disfavor. It was decided that Hoover Dam shall be built in a moral atmosphere. Therefore from Washington last week went forth secret orders which sent half a hundred Prohibition agents under Col. George Seavers of San Francisco swooping down upon Las Vegas. Twenty-five night clubs, saloons and roadhouses were raided. Lakes of liquor were seized, five breweries put out of commission. Fire threatened the business district when enthusiastic agents ignited a great stack of mash barrels. Arrested were 80 bootleggers, bartenders, speakeasy proprietors, girl entertainers. After...
Though they will spend their money and playtime at Las Vegas, Hoover Dam workmen will live at Boulder City, a construction village being built for them 31 mi. away at the dam site.* Last week in Washington steps were taken to fix the moral tone of Boulder City, make it a "model town." Appointed by Secretary of the Interior Wilbur to manage the land leasing on this government reservation was Louis C. Cramton, onetime (1913-31) Michigan Congressman, ardent Prohibitor. At Boulder City, Mr. Cramton announced, only two competing businesses of the same type would be permitted, and leases would...