Word: self-control
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...extended facilities for divorces, birth prevention and the like? Simply that these instincts and passions are entitled to self-gratification, though in seeking it they contravene Christian or even natural law. . . . How can those who deliberately interfere with the natural processes of life preach purity to women? . . . Their evil books are studied by the young whom matrimony never joined. Writers, painters, and actors on the screen and stage, women by the fashion of their dress, who render self-control more difficult and thereby make natural craving for sinful self-gratifications more imperious than it would otherwise be, are doing more...
Humble, hard-toiling, peasant-bred Lancashire has stood for other wage cuts, but this was to the bone. With quiet, orderly determination?with a self-control more intimidating to employers than any show of violence?500,000 steady and skilled workers stopped work on the day the wage cut became effective last week. They are craftsfolk. Out of the question to replace them with scab labor not skilled to spin and weave! The cotton strike, colossal in magnitude, damaging to a dozen allied British trades, world-wide in repercussions, was, at its focus in Lancashire, almost terrifyingly simple: a stark...
...graduate of Columbia (school of mines, 1890) and an Alpha Delta Phi, was Fuel Administrator in New York State during the coal strike of 1922, ran for Congress unsuccessfully in 1898 and though a life-long Republican, supported Governor Smith. He is 60. Believing strongly in self-control, he stops smoking one month each year to demonstrate that he is no tobacco-slave...
...many of your normal, well-balanced readers, who believe in protecting the people against themselves by judicious enactment of laws restraining the vicious and those devoid of self-control from inflicting upon themselves and others the consequences of self indulgence and vice, your timely expose of the Taft letter, which to many of your readers was unknown, was I am sure, very much like the discovery of a letter written by Abraham Lincoln in 1857 applauding the Dred Scott decision; or Theodore Roosevelt's posthumous missive condemning the Sherman Anti-Trust law; or a communication of William McKinley condoning...
Last week's visit by Agents Washburn and Grisson seemed to indicate pressure from high Federal powers. "The Gut's" murderous loss of self-control boded ill for the Brown Derby...