Word: morale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will be provided with an officer to conduct them to the military cemeteries, a trained nurse and free medicines to guard their health. The free trip of two weeks abroad represents a cost to the U. S. of $840 for each mother or widow. To insure a high moral standard on the pilgrimage, the U. S. barred Gold Star mothers living out of wedlock during the War, veterans' widows who had since remarried...
...Starting from the Henry Street settlement in New York where I met Miss Lillian D. Wald, I encountered such depths of misery, moral and physical, as would appall the most experienced social workers. A great deal of child delinquency is due to the Prohibition law. Parents break the law and are inveterate drinkers. . . . The child becomes accustomed to see the law disobeyed. ... The very base of family life is different in the United States from that in older countries. About half the population have no religious beliefs at all. The home is merely a place for sleeping, or, occasionally, eating...
...masse the chaplains of the Army and Navy. . . . [The U. S. and the churches] did not want the War, did not start the War, were powerless to prevent the War, but once drawn in ... prayed and fought for victory and peace. . . . You have no right to ignore underlying moral issues and to fail to distinguish between the will for peace which characterizes America and the will for war which has animated other parts of the world. . . . I know a great number of chaplains. . . . I do not know of one who does not hate war, who does not hope...
...picture that was known as a "superfeaturerl in the days when all pictures were westerns and when anything was a superfeature that contained more than a straight western story. The novelty is the introduction into ranch life of Joan Crawford, a girl addicted to the incautious pleasures and frail moral standards of the East. She marries a cowboy, "repents, is on her way back to New York when her train is held up by cowpunchers masquerading as bandits. Finding that the man with a black handkerchief over his face who carries her off is her husband, she experiences a change...
...blowy October day in 1858 a lanky, shambling, tangle-haired politician stood on the steps of a college building in Galesburg, Ill., and fervently shouted at a short, chesty orator, his opponent in debate: "He is blowing out the moral lights around us who contends that whoever wants slaves has a right to hold them!" The lanky one was Abraham Lincoln, the other Stephen Arthur Douglas.("The Little Giant"). The building was Old Main of Knox College. Knoxmen may well be proud of her past. For Knox's 93 years have been as packed full of worthy happenings and worthy...