Word: morale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hollywood has been untiring in its efforts to drive home the moral object-lesson that a female member of the social register may possibly be no "lady" at all, and that a girl of low extraction quite often possesses those qualities which are said to adorn the true gentlewoman. It is some time before Ian Hunter, after waking up to find himself the husband of Bette Davis, realizes that he has a jewel. Old friends seek to draw him away, and there is the lure of the gilded siren, whose marriage to another has not, it appears, diminished her affection...
...content with a moral victory, Jews throughout the world wished for something a little more substantial, agreed with Manhattan Lawyer Samuel Untermyer that the fines were "absurdly inadequate...
There can be no doubt that under some circumstances disciplinary action is justifiable. If the Advocate or the CRIMSON should deliberately misrepresent fact, the College must possess protection. If the Lampoon should fail to keep within moral limits, which are its standard, the College must again have protection...
...should we be singled out and admonished that the moral duty to restore order is primarily ours...
...Royal Oak. A Klan cross burning before his church door turned him to fighting bigotry by radio. For two years he preached simple gospel and his mail grew slowly to 4,000 letters per week. Having imbibed the social doctrines of Pope Leo XIII, he determined to descend from moral generalities to hard social particulars. With uncommon eloquence he articulated popular discontent. When he reviled unemployment, mass production, unequal distribution of wealth, his mail reached new peaks-at times 1,000,000 letters per week. With it came cash, cash, cash- more than enough to pay large radio bills...