Word: moral
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...claim of the Committee that the University did not have a legitimate reason to withdraw its permission for the Browder lecture because he was indicted for using a passport under a false name. "No one has suggested that there is any moral turpitude involved in the case," the Committee said...
...munition industry dragging this country into war is incredible fiction. . . .This country went into the World War to vindicate its rights on the high seas, and now to relinquish these rights through fear of Hitlerism is to dishonor our dead. . . . The proposition is utterly destitute of courage and moral sense. . . . One of my sons was gassed and the other was a combatant soldier. . . . But a nation without spirit or an elevated soul is as bad as a derelict on the seas. . . . This country should not be content simply to eat and sleep and go to the movies. That would...
...solemn statement of Christian, rather than exclusively Catholic, doctrines for a world beset with "difficulties, anxieties and trials." He mentioned by name only two nations, "our dear Italy" and "our dear Poland." The great body of his encyclical Pius XII devoted to an examination of the "spiritual and moral bankruptcy of the present day," and of two "errors" in particular which menace "the peaceful intercourse of peoples...
Ninotchka (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) reveals the moral, political and sartorial bankruptcy that ensues when a female Bolshevik is exposed to the bourgeois perils of running water, Melvyn Douglas and Paris. Unlike most pictures about Russian Reds, this one is neither crude clowning nor crude prejudice, but a literate and knowingly directed satire which lands many a shrewd crack about phony Five Year Plans, collective farms, Communist jargon and pseudo-scientific gab where it will do the most good-on the funny bone...
Until we demonstrate our ability to solve our own moral issues, others cannot learn from...