Word: morale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...decently expressed for popular consumption with other words. A five-foot shelf of Economic Quarterlies cannot prove as he does, that there are forty thousand millionaires too many in this country; nor will any number of Treatises on Money express as pungently that the "money problem essentially a moral problem, relating to the principles of justice." More pertinent to the constructive side of his damnations, is the strong fatherly method in which he extends salvation to a picked few of the forty thousand; the rare, trade-minded industrialists like Henry Ford and his peers; while he lets those...
...lawyer by training, Banker Aldrich got down to legal brass tacks with specific changes which he thought should be made in the Banking Act of 1933. His proposals had not only a strong legal but a strong moral tenor, natural to a brother-in-law of John D. Rockefeller Jr. Important Aldrich suggestions for the uplift of banking...
...Author, who takes a deep view of artists, thinks van Gogh was less gifted with imagination and talent than the average man. "But if the word artist . . . is a synonym for a man of such moral tenor that he only sets a further goal to his aspiration as his consciousness gains in the deepening perception of Nature and her laws, then Vincent was an artist and the greatest of our time...
...Roosevelt family. Comedian Cantor visited Warm Springs last fortnight as representative of Hollywood's newly-formed Actors' Guild. More startling was the appointment of prim little Dr. Lowell. His job will be to superintend the efforts of the Hays organization to regulate the industry's moral flavor from within...
...Lowell's interest in the cinema started last summer when he was chosen to succeed Princeton's late John Grier Hibben as chairman of the Motion Picture Research Council, which attempts to elevate the moral tone of the cinema industry. Last month, his name popped into Variety for the first time when he requested President Roosevelt to include in the cinema code a provision against "block-booking," whereby producers require exhibitors to take pictures by groups instead of singly. Block-booking is the most familiar alibi of exhibitors who show morally deleterious films. Their real reason for disliking...