Word: morale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...moral was dreadfully plain to all the U.S. (where the same thing would happen State by State if the people let the bosses run things): if the people and press fail, they will get the kind of Congress they deserve, and the kind of Government they deserve...
...peoples with the culture of the Indians, a culture as old, as deep and as real as that of their Chinese neighbors, could ever stand by and tolerate these insults to their moral standards and to their common humanity. ... In whatever form we may each worship our own conception of supreme power and absolute goodness, we one and all desire to see those ethical and moral standards which are implicit in our religion become touchstone of our behavior...
...pastors resignation was much more than a moral protest. It meant that they gave up comfortable incomes for their convictions-for in Norway, as in Germany, the State pays clerical salaries, as well as the cost of church administration, church building and church repairs. Now Quisling will pay only the salaries of the few clergymen loyal to him and support only those churches which give allegiance to his government. But the hardy Norse will undoubtedly find ways to back their spiritual leaders materially as well as morally. The Confessional Church in Germany has existed entirely on such secret gifts since...
...issue a book whose title bears little obvious relation to its content. This is one of those cases. George Soule, an editor of the New Republic, is not concerned with the material strength of a nation in terms of geo-politics or raw materials. Nor is he dealing with moral or ethical factors. The book is rather a frank attempt to synthesize a new social theory from the tangled threads of the several social sciences as they exist today...
...Understanding, planning, and work," Loughlin said, should be the key words of the conference. Considering the general problem of protecting the college, Major General Daniel J. Needham, Director of Protection Division, Massachusetts Committee on Public Safety, asserted that the colleges had a legal and moral obligation to blackout and take other precautionary measures in order to relieve the municipalities of the burden...