Word: morale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Speaking in the forum, Alvin H. Hansen Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Political Economy, William E. Hocking '01, Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy and Civil Polity, C. Crane Brinton '19, associate professor of History, and Thomas Matters '43, president of the Student Council, will discuss the sacrifices which groups and individuals must make...
From the Iberian Peninsula came huffs & puffs from a Class 4-F dictator, sour, stolid Francisco Franco. Throttled, starving, hate-ridden Spain, said he, must prepare to "fight a new war of a moral, religious, military and industrial character." Up went the temperatures of diplomats in the old and the new worlds. They wondered how long it would be before Franco, backed once more by friends Hitler & Mussolini, would: 1) attack Gibraltar, 2) draw neutral Portugal into the Spanish orbit...
...trade pacts with Britain since the 17th Century. The Portuguese have also watched Brazil, which broke from the mother country in 1823, move toward war against the Axis (see below). Two months ago Salazar spoke of "an eventual British victory." But in the same speech he warned of the moral and religious threat of Russia and "the possible need for fighting," despite all efforts to remain neutral. His speech was entitled "Economic Defense, Moral Defense and Political Defense." With what Portugal would fight, now that virtually her entire army has been sent to empire outposts-the Azores, Mozambique, Guinea...
...that the power of a trustworthy friend would embrace half the South American continent. In a message to President Vargas, President Roosevelt said: "I express to Your Excellency the profound emotion with which [Brazil's] courageous action has been received in this country. ... It adds power and strength, moral and material, to the armies of liberty...
Theoretically there's a moral running along somewhere in the movie. It is that behind the great man there stands a woman who spuss him on in his achievements. How Joel McCrea, the "great man" in this case, ever manages to get past first base ranks as the number one cinema mystery of the season. He gambles away his property, shoots his wife's best friend, disappears at the weirdest times, and manages to scare the daylights out of his wife when he is around...