Word: morale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...immigration inspectors closed around him, to protect him from physical violence in case any of his onetime "investors" still harbored wrath against him. They carried him off to the East Boston immigration station and booked him for deportation to Italy because he had been twice convicted of crimes involving moral turpitude. He was allowed 90 days freedom if he could raise $1,000 bail. Expecting his wife Rose to bring the bail at any moment, he refused to take off his coat and hat, refused to eat lunch. His next meal, he insisted, was going to be chicken with rice...
...more than 24 hours before the bail was raised and he was free. Meantime a Negro attorney was preparing an appeal to Madam Secretary Perkins against his deportation. The grounds: he was twice convicted but only one act of moral turpitude was involved...
...Moral? Friends of the Administration tried to justify its action on the ground of morality. Republicans, it was argued, always favored industry and big business as a fundamental theory of government. The airlines had waxed fat on subsidies and insiders had made millions from stock deals. President Roosevelt was only trying to purge an industry that had been too long at the Treasury trough. Such was the note struck by Senator Black last week in a radio speech...
...Municipal Art Exhibit to be held there, eleven members of the Society of Independent Artists declared a boycott. The Rockefellers were accused of "cultural vandalism," of "murder with malice aforethought." The American Society of Painters, Sculptors and Gravers (membership: 90) joined the boycott, declaring: "The Rockefeller family had no moral right. . . ." Radical Suzanne La Follette called a protest mass meeting, rallied critics as well as artists. In Mexico City Painter Rivera declared: "My object was attained when the painting was destroyed. I thank the Rockefellers for its destruction because the act will advance the cause of the labor revolution...
...citizens who met with Governor Ely this week in support of Howard B. Gill '13, now under fire in the investigation of the Norfolk Prison Administration. The professors who discussed conditions at the prison with the Governor were William E. Hocking '01, Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity; Kirtley F. Mather, Professor of Geology; Kendrick N. Marshall '21, Instructor in Government; and J. Anton de Haas '11, William Ziegler Professor of International Relationships...