Word: moralizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Into the black sky above the Hollywood Bowl in Hollywood, Calif, four great searchlights stabbed. They stood like steady swords of light-or like the beams thrown up at Germany's annual Nuremberg Party Congresses. But these four rays signalled the four standards of Moral Re-Armament: Absolute Honesty, Purity, Unselfishness, Love. MRA, launched in the East this spring, had been brought to the West Coast by Dr. Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman and 1,000 followers, many of whom traveled across the land on a 22-car "MRA Special." In the Hollywood Bowl, the Buchmanites sat on the stage...
...praise for MRA; thereupon Mr. Hoover let it be known that he neither endorsed MRA nor denied endorsing it. Read again was the message President Roosevelt sent a recent MRA meeting in Washington. Thirty-three U. S. Governors let their names be used as subscribing to a statement that "Moral Re-Armament is our most urgent need...
...statistics made the most amazing disclosure of all: that 75% of the male population at one time or another have had some form of venereal disease. This almost incredible figure, in the light of Das Neue Tage-Buch's, researches, may be a consequence not only of the moral paganism preached in the New Germany but also of lowered resistance on the part of young Germans to venereal infection...
...pacifist is a person who, on religious or moral grounds, objects to all wars, defensive or offensive. A conscientious objector is one who reserves to himself the right to decide whether to support his country in a particular war. When the U. S. entered the World War, more than 64,000 citizens applied, on grounds of conscience, for exemption from combat service. But fewer than 4,000 went further, demanded exemption from noncombatant duty. Most of these were sent to farms and camps; 486 were sentenced to prison, 17 to death. (But no one was executed...
...Federal Council of Churches to preach sermons on "the modern Luther." Eleven oddly-assorted citizens (among them: Alf M. Landon, Walter Damrosch, C. I. O.'s Philip Murray, Harry Emerson Fosdick, Columbia University's Dr. Franz Boas) cabled Pastor Niemoller "our great admiration for your moral courage...