Word: moral
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...public library I noticed the sign, "Because someone is continually stealing TIME, it must be kept at the desk. Ask for it." There is free publicity for you. For several years I have known you are a genius but I never realized you would drive a person to such moral laxity...
...local agents of the Watch and Ward Society have shown themselves just as adept at making moral distinctions concerning their own actions as concerning the words of authors. Perhaps it is mere layman's thickheadedness that makes one regard "falsehood and deception" as somewhat inconsistent with the highest moral aims. Perhaps it is an indication of profligacy, if one thinks the methods employed in dogging a bookseller until he sells to a supposedly responsible buyer a book starred on the Boston List of Genuine Literature That You Mustn't Read. And doubtless one is being a free-thinker...
...same primary onetime Senator George Wharton Pepper spent $1,804,979, onetime Governor Gifford Pinchot, $187,029, vainly seeking the senatorial nomination. The Senate set a moral limit for campaign expenditures in 1922 when it seated Truman Hanly Newberry of Michigan, condemned his political use of $196,000 as excessive...
...Budget of the U. S. is a green-bound volume about the size of a telephone book for a city of two million and contains about as many figures. Prepared under the President's personal supervision, it details to Congress, which is under a moral but not legal obligation to follow it, the estimated sums of money required to operate the Government. U. S. officials appear before the House Appropriations Committee-in secret session-to explain and justify their cash allotments. Any such official who dares ask Congress for more money than the Budget allows him violates the Budget...
...usual, David Lloyd George covered the trail of his devious policy with an oration about nothing in particular but of lofty moral tone. At the mere mention of Disarmament, the little Welsh lawyer leaped up to cry: "President Herbert Hoover is the only world statesman of today who sees that problem with clear eyes!" (no mean dig at James Ramsay MacDonald). "Mr. Hoover has pointed out that men under arms including actual reservists, in the world are almost 30,000,000, or 10,000,000 more numerous than before the War. Every time I, or anyone else...