Word: morale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...extreme New Dealers perhaps all of these men except Earl Warren and Harold Stassen were anathema. But not to the country at large. Senator Vandenberg had joined freely and courageously with Secretary of State Byrnes to form the nation's strong, bipartisan foreign policy. Taft's cold, moral judgment and insistence on getting at the facts had more than once saved the Senate from hysterical legislation. Dewey's businesslike administration of New York has won him a popularity which would apparently re-elect him by a landslide. What about 67-year-old Ed Martin of Pennsylvania...
Protestants, Catholics and Jews united last week to assert the place of God's moral law in Caesar's world. In a "Declaration on Economic Justice," 122 religious men-clerics and laymen-agreed on common moral sanctions of their varied faiths. Their declaration was not calculated to please men accustomed to keeping God and Caesar well apart. Excerpts: ¶ "The material resources of life are entrusted to man by God for the benefit of all. . . . It follows, therefore, that the right to private property is limited by moral obligations and is subject to social restrictions for the common...
...Crimson on October 7, despite the oft-demonstrated fact that the purpose of communists in joining liberal organizations is to turn htose organizations into pawns for communist objectives. Perhaps this point in itself does not give the Harvard Liberal Union, or any other progressive organization espousing democratic deals, moral sanction for driving Communist Party members from its ranks...
Conspicuous Disparity. Thoughtful people throughout the Western World realized that not merely eleven wretched lives were at stake, but Western democracy's moral position in the inevitable trials of history. Their doubts about Nűrnberg's justice were perhaps best summed up by two British publications. Said London's Economist...
Worst of all, the Russians are getting impatient. They are beginning to suspect that their heavy investment of monetary and moral support for SED has been unsound. In addition to the Sedists' relatively poor performance at the polls, several political divergencies have appeared. Foreign Minister Molotov recently had to slap down a suggestion by SED Leader Otto Grotewohl that Poland might give up some of the German territory she got at Potsdam. Grotewohl also objects mildly to Russia's super-combine of German industries in the Russian zone (TIME, Aug. 26) and to her peace-delaying tactics (cried...