Word: morale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...running board, was knocked on the head. Other strikers broke police lines, rushed to the scene. Police fired again. Fifty pickets were wounded, most of them in the arms and legs. One died next day. Overtures for a general strike were made but other unions promised no more than moral support. Meantime a two-day truce was declared, to give Rev. Francis Haas, Federal mediator, time to arrange a settlement. Governor Floyd B. Olson moved 4,000 guardsmen to the State Fair Grounds. When the truce expired no settlement had been reached and police again began convoying food trucks...
William Henry Aspinwall's sister, Mary Rebecca, married Isaac Roosevelt, the President's grandfather. Great-Uncle William passed a youth "of moral purity" in a "refined and Christian' home in Bleeker Street," according to his Staten Island minister upon the occasion of Mr. Aspinwall's death in 1875. Aged 25, he was taken into partnership in the mercantile firm of Gardiner G. & Samuel S. Howland. his uncles. The firm later fell largely into his hands, developed a thriving trade in the Mediterranean, an unrivalled one in the Pacific and East Indies, a downright monopoly in Venezuela. His venture into...
...godfather, Sir John Simon crisply made clear when he rose to give the Eastern Locarno its first public airing last week in the House of Commons. "We are not undertaking any new obligation," he insisted. "We under take no obligation at all!" But Sir John then threw the full moral weight of His Majesty's Government behind the following peace program...
...twins and fiancé rushed under the Hudson River for a Newark, N. J. marriage license. City Clerk Harry S. Reichenstein expelled them, with: "Nothing doing! Moral reasons...
...Breen, onetime Associated Pressman, was about to become the cinema's chief censor. His job will be to read scripts before production, to send assistants to supervise production of dubious sequences, to preview finished films and mark those that pass with a "subtitle" indicating that they are fit moral fare for U. S. cinemaddicts. Pictures too dirty to pass Censor Breen will be subjected to scrutiny, not as heretofore by a friendly committee of three producers, but by a special convention of the directors of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America. A producer who releases a picture...