Word: morality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Democrats also can-and sometimes do-jail Democrats. The high moral character of Democrat Frank Murphy, who says he has never made an appointment for purely political reasons, permits no recognition of party lines if Evil is involved. Attorney General Murphy's men put mighty Boss Pendergast of Kansas City behind the bars (TIME, May 29). They went after judges they thought were crooked (see p. 17). High-minded, capable judges and law enforcement officers replaced unsavory political characters...
Neville Chamberlain tried to look like a statesman-imperturbable-but inwardly he was rubbing his hands; he was sure that he had avoided a war which would have been bad business, had got gracefully out of an embarrassing moral obligation to the Czechs, had thrown a cheap sop that would convert a troublesome fellow into a reasonable man with whom Chamberlain could henceforth make profitable connections in this best of all possible worlds...
...free, but why do most talented Negro artists live in virtual poverty? Why--why --why--over and over again the words to the song din that question into the cars of those who have listened to it--why a people must be submitted to the physical and moral subjugation that makes its songs temples of gloom and misery is the query of this freezing chant...
About to erect a $30,000 memorial to James Upham in Washington, the Order of Jobs' Daughters of Portsmouth, Va. recently asked Colonel Moss to say that again. Job's Daughters, aged 13 to 20, "band together girls for spiritual and moral upbuilding, to teach love of country and flag . . . home, parents and elders." Just to be sure, he asked Historians Charles C. Tansill (America Goes to War), Bernard Mayo (Henry Clay) and Political Scientist W. Reed West to check up on him. That caution probably cost Patriot Upham a sumptuous monument. Last week Colonel Moss penitently announced...
Actually "Dick" Vidmer, Herald Tribune sportswriter, had reported how 34 U. S. sportsmen* signed a statement: "Moral Re-Armament is a battle for peace where sportsmen must take the lead. . . . Sportsmen morally rearmed can unite the world." They signed at the urging of handsome Henry Wilfred ("Bunny") Austin, British Davis Cup tennis player, now Dr. Buchmairs chief MRA-sayer. Sportswriter Vidmer thereupon remarked that, before preaching such doctrines. U. S. sportsmen might well clean up U. S. sport. He concluded: "Moral rearmament, as it is described by the disciples who have brought it to these shores, is magnificent and magnetic...