Word: self-respect
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Nevertheless, as Secretary of State he had laid down a line. Foreign offices applauded. U.S. citizens felt the national dignity and self-respect somewhat restored. Jimmy Byrnes had laid down principles from which deviation now would be painfully apparent...
...overseas (see BUSINESS), Harry Truman called World War I's famed food expert, former President Herbert Hoover, and a Famine Committee of twelve other prominent citizens* to the White House. Their job: to formulate a program through which the U.S. public could voluntarily practice self-denial as the price of national self-respect...
Question of Self-Respect. Harold Ickes then held a spectacular press conference in the Interior Department's auditorium. His aides, newsmen, photographers and radiomen with recording apparatus swarmed in. In his crusty old voice he made his position doubly clear -either "I had forsworn myself and made false statements under oath or someone else has." He went on the radio: "A man has to live with himself. I have to spend the rest of my life with Harold Ickes and I could no longer, much as I regret it, retain my self-respect and stay in the Cabinet...
...Self-Respect. In Dallas, a judge talked too loud, fined himself $5 for contempt of court...
...Freedom. The new Premier was slight, aging (73) Baron Kijuro Shidehara, former Ambassador to the U.S. and one of Japan's few surviving liberal lead ers. Said he: "I will do my best to lead the nation back to self-respect. . . ." His Cabinet included no outright warmakers, no great statesmen of any kind. One of his Government's first measures: abolition of bayonet and jujitsu drill...