Word: temperance
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...temper of the country has quieted down, so has its hero-worship of the man in the White House. Surveys agreed that public enthusiasm for Franklin Roosevelt was cooler today than in the confused autumn of 1934. Dr. George Gallup, professional surveyor of public taste (who calls himself the "American Institute of Public Opinion"), recently published a graph of the President's popularity showing that it reached a new low just after Congress adjourned. Last week Frazier Hunt, correspondent of Newspaper Enterprise Association, after a cross-country political reconnoissance, came to a similar conclusion. The opposition, though still...
Secretary Hull, in formulating American policy, has expressed the national temper most successfully. In a radio address, delivered in his name by the Undersecretary of State on Wednesday night, he explained that mere neutrality is not enough, that the United States has a duty to maintain peace, and that this duty should be fulfilled "by the use of our influence, short of becoming involved in the dispute itself." These words are innocuous enough in themselves, as were similar statements made early in the World War or at the time of the less-tragic but equally humiliating Manchurian crisis. They...
Could the magnanimous and constructive engineer who dealt with Huns be given to anger? Could the one man who went between all the loosed war dogs of Europe and kept the trust of all, be unable to hold his own temper? Could the brilliant and tender Quaker who rebuilt human Belgium and France, who rebuilt and re-established the lives of the families of his late enemies, be an angry man? Could the untiring diplomatist and spiritual servant who never let one strand of his delicate relationships between militarists and nationalists and intriguers, drunk warlords and war-led, sadists, sentimentalists...
...Hoover thinks he is Grover Cleveland, he has never read the story of that administration. Mr. Cleveland went down fighting for sound, progressive principles; the temper of the country, not his record, was responsible for his defeat. Mr. Hoover, on the other hand, failed to take sufficiently constructive action to halt the depression; the temper of the country and his record combined to beat...
...when I realize it comes from the official representatives of the Government of the United States, I say that if that represents their conception of official duty and their temper toward citizens, then on bended knee I pray, 'God save the SEC and the people of these United States.' " Lawyer Davis requested that the charges of the Administration's three representatives be placed in permanent court records as a horrible example...