Word: morale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...words: "We must ask the public to break its habit of referring to disarmament in connection with our work. What we are dealing with is only the reduction and limitation of armaments. Absolute disarmament remains an ideal the realization of which is scarcely conceivable in the present political and moral situation of the world." President Hoover was represented last week by Ambassador (to Belgium) Hugh Gibson. "We shall contribute," said Mr. Gibson, "a great deal of silence." Dictator Josef Stalin of Soviet Russia was represented by Commissar for Foreign Affairs Maxim Maximovitch Litvinov. "This is the last time that Soviet...
...with all the responsibility of my position either as Labor leader or British statesman that any policy carrying with it repudiation either of moral or legal obligations is doomed to disaster in the end to the party, the individual or the State. Because I believe these things are fundamental and go to the root of society, I pay my tribute to Mr. Scullin and express our feelings of pride in the stand he has taken...
...Eleven million Germans [Hitler's Fascists] have openly declared that their goal is the moral destruction of Europe! . . . Germany is spending this year on munitions 100,000,000 marks more than France. ... Germany is conspiring to obtain a moratorium of her Reparations payments. The reply of France must...
...stock up his pond. From the noise in the wagon, the man was sure all the bullfrogs were still there all the way. But when he got to the pond, he found that all but two specially noisy frogs had jumped out. Good Jim Good's good moral was: Don't count your votes by the amount of noise they make before election...
Strategy in Handling People is a how-to-succeed book, using a novel technique. It relates a series of anecdotes and then moralizes in italics. Typical moral: "People are all different and must be treated differently." The worst that can be said about the book is that it draws heavily on the life of Benjamin Franklin. But its merit is that the anecdotes pertain to some 300 other people from Louisa M. Alcott to Adolph Zukor...