Word: morale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...world to embellish its covers? Is there not enough intolerance and racial hatred in this world of ours without TIME playing it up? It might just as well be news for TIME to tell in its pages and picture on its covers the sayings and doings of Sexual and moral perverts. I am ashamed of you and of a policy such as this shows yours to be. . . . SAM H. SIEGEL Haines City...
...most brightly in the early part of the last century. In this sense he was dissatisfied with the "modern movement", which he was able to track back to Jean-Jacques Rousseau in one of his chief works, "Rouseau and, Romanticism". His other books extend the idea of intellectual and moral decline since the days of Rousseau and the democratic theorists to the field of politics in "Democracy and Leadership", to modern education, in "Literature and the American College", and to art in "The New Loakoon". Other works were "Masters of Modern French Criticism," and "On Being Creative," the last...
...would have been a stubborn man indeed who would have argued with Professor when he held up to view the questionable foundations of post-war intellect or when he unyieldingly declined to excuse some of the world's great poets for the weaknesses of their philosophies and for their moral failings. For him the world was "not modern enough;" he found it destroying more than in constructed...
...sisters-in-law (Misses Irene & Elizabeth Flautt) and six salesmen was scandalous but simple. Goebel and associates had succeeded in bilking $3,000,000 from 400 Roman Catholic priests, 6,000 laymen with the proposal to make "movie and talkie pictures of a thoroughly high-class, moral type, such as would appeal to church people." Superfilm from National Diversified was to be called Mary, The Virgin. The company did produce two cinemas featuring Eddie Dowling, good Catholic comedian, before going into bankruptcy in 1930. The Government then brought mail fraud charges. What prolonged the trial was the thoroughness...
...against Labor's extreme demands. Likewise they would be put to no great financial loss because, of the 600,000 U. S. textile workers, only about 15,000 are children, toiling mostly in the lint-laden air of Southern mills. But their child labor prohibition was packed with moral dynamite which might yet blow the anachronistic practice out of all industry. Next to cotton mills, clothing factories suck in more girls and boys than any other U. S. industry. Most of them are dark. fetid "sweatshops" where youngsters trim and stitch and sew on buttons at starvation wages...