Word: moral
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Donnell jockeyed incident Roosevelt into openly denouncing the press subsidy by the Government as an "unhealthy thing." Grinning, the President suggested that the press might well campaign for repeal of the 90-year-old subsidy, originally enacted to promote distribution of newspapers and magazines, uplift educational and moral standards. In 24 hours the President had his answer from the American Newspaper Publishers Association. It took a quick sense of its postal committee and solemnly denied that second-class privileges amount to a subsidy. "Charges of private agencies of transportation and distribution" are "far less than those of the Post Office...
...more recently reorganized and capitalized at $2,250,000. Headed by politically powerful Jack Warner, sporty production chief of the $177,000,000 Warner Bros. Corporation, and a board of directors of impeccable backgrounds, the reorganized Hollywood Turf Club convinced the Racing Board of its financial and moral soundness, got permission to build a race track in Los Angeles County. But the Board shyly held up its allocation of racing dates. At long last, last week, the Racing Board granted the Hollywood Turf Club 33 racing days next summer...
...appalling that it is small wonder Americans are prone to let the wish be parent to the thought and to dream of isolation from terrestrial troubles. If it is possible for America to withdraw behind her coastline while the world rushes to destruction, it would be a convincing moral argument indeed which would persuade us to leave that sanctuary. But if, in the end, we are to be dragged, however unwillingly, into the conflict, it is shortsighted policy which prevents us from exerting our tremendous force on the side of those governments whose manifest desires, altruistic...
Just as important as competent leaders, however, are fields and buildings in which to organize these youngsters. It is here that Harvard should assume moral obligations and help hundreds of urchins who will never be privileged to use its libraries and laboratories. Mr. Mahoney's Recreation Division is empowered by law to supply workers to private playgrounds with the sanction of the owner. A step in this direction was made last week when the University allowed a worker to superintend the winter sports on the ground around the Observatory. But this was a trifling concession. Since Harvard closed the Divinity...
This is the second of a series of four broadcasts of classroom lectures by Dr. Wild and William E. Hocking, Alferd Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity...