Word: moralize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...drys, consolidated, President Hoover last week grew fretful. Through the press, anonymously he sent forth word that no spectacular or drastic steps would be taken in his law enforcement campaign. He proposed to proceed sanely, to instill in people a respect for all law by education and moral suasion. He sought to avoid specialization on the prohibition law. Wet observers credited him with a shrewd and nimble sidestep. Most embarrassed was Major Edwin B. Hesse of the Washington, D. C., police force, who, with impressive fanfare, had just set out to dry up the trickling capital "as an example...
...Washington, as a moral offset to the anti-Five & Ten legal committees, steps were taken to organize a "Bar of the United States," composed of lawyers in Federal practice pledged to all law enforcement including Prohibition. Charles William Freeman headed the organizing committee, with William R. Vallance, Assistant Solicitor of the Department of State and president of the Federal Bar Association, as chief assistant. Only "earnest advocates" of law enforcement are eligible, though on Prohibition, "personal beliefs" would not be considered...
...Brookhart, Blaine, Borah, Frazier, Howell, Johnson, Dill, La Folle"?. Shipstead, Nye, Wheeler, all come within the category. There is little intellectual or moral fibre in any of them. They pother, trim and hedge...
...belongs to the department of moral force. A battle is the conflict of two mills. Victory is a moral superiority on the part of the conqueror and a moral depression on the part of the conquered...
...Logic of Moral Obligation", Professor Perry Emerson...