Word: morale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sirs: At the rate the American people are descending into utter moral and mental degradation, under the New Deal, I wouldn't be surprised to see Roosevelt's speech to the teamsters placed side by side with the Gettysburg Address in our history books. Two comments I heard on it rate notice, I think. Said a lady, "I thought I was listening to the Great Gildersleeve running for the office of Mayor of Summerfield." Said a bewildered man: "I didn't know we had a canine vote...
...Century came out against President Roosevelt. Dr. Charles Clayton Morrison, quiet, bespectacled editor of this liberal Protestant weekly, wrote that the basic issue was Term III. Last week, the Christian Century came out for Tom Dewey, again seeing one basic issue. The issue, said the Century, is the "comparative moral stature of the two candidates...
...Question of Morals. The council first got complaints last summer, when it issued a set of advertisements and posters showing people facing the problems of venereal disease - "VD" in the posters. Sample captions: "How does your daughter pronounce syphilis, gonorrhea? That's easy. She doesn't." "Science Says VD Can Be Cured." "Hiding VD Is Foolish." Moral aspects were scarcely mentioned...
...They treat "shell-shock" (a term "loosely applied to almost any neuropsychiatric condition") by coddling rather than discipline, thus teaching moral weaklings to foster their mental quirks...
...Psychiatry more than any other branch of medicine emphasizes the necessity of moral and ethical values. ... It is precisely at the point where the human character can no longer direct his God-given will-power that disease begins." The psychiatrist's most important role is as a diagnostician, to determine where that point...