Word: morale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Governor-General of the Philippines. A few minutes later he went marching out again as U. S. Minister to Hungary. Between those two marches lay the solution to one of President Hoover's touchiest appointive jobs. With adroit conciliatory hands the President had reshuffled his cards, dealt a moral victory to the native politicos of the Philippines, to Mr. Roosevelt a face-saving promotion, to his own Administration a neat out. Other simultaneous dealings included the acceptance of the resignation of Leland Harrison as Minister to Uruguay and the transfer of jovial Joshua Butler Wright as Minister from Hungary...
...Fascism is so much to be despised, how is it possible for the Pope, the highest moral authority in the world, to enter into negotiations with Mussolini...
...Rowland Frederic William Hodge, seventyish; famed shipbuilder; in London, a week after the marriage of Lady Cathcart's son Henry de Grey Warter to Mabel Bowers Rean of British vaudeville. In 1926 Lady Cathcart was temporarily refused entry to the U. S. in a famed case of "moral turpitude." Three years prior she had gone to Cape Town with the Earl of Craven, never her husband...
...communication from Jean Cardinal Verdier, new Archbishop of Paris (TIME, Dec. 2). Joyously the prelate reported that he had just had audience with the President of France, M. Gaston ("Gastou-net") Doumergue, stanch Protestant, who said (said the Cardinal): "Your Eminence is a representative among us of that immense moral force, the Catholic Church. Do not hesitate to act freely. The anticlericalism manifested in France is only superficial. We are a great Catholic nation and such we should remain!" No sooner was Osservatore Romano off the press than the French Embassy at Vatican City rang up Paris, was put through...
Football Background. Interviewed in Manhattan, Dr. Charles Leo O'Donnell, president of football-famed Notre Dame University, said: "Behind a great football team there must be an intellectual and moral background, and while a first-rate college can function successfully without football, a good football team always goes with a good college. Athletes look to the greatness of a college and are inspired to uphold its intellectual and moral prestige." Soft Drinks, Sandwiches. In commenting on his announcement that henceforth the University of Washington will eliminate courses of a vocational or trade nature, said President Matthew Lyle Spencer...