Word: morale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Profiting by so much economic distress and so much moral disorder, the enemies of all social order, be they called Communists or any other name, boldly set about breaking through every restraint. This is the most dreadful evil of our times...
Knowing your interest in American youth, I am wondering if you would suggest about 30 pictures of high moral tone and alive with romance adventure and historical worth. Your suggestions will aid considerably in wisely selecting the pictures for this fine group of boys this summer...
...last year and a half cinemanufacturers have not produced 30 pictures of 'high moral tone and alive with romance, adventure and historical worth." Herewith a list of 24 which might do for a school-age camp: Cimarron, Rango, City Lights, Trader Horn, Skippy, A Connecticut Yankee, Chances, The Viking Spirit of Notre Dame, The Champ, Forbidden Adventure, Huckleberry Finn, Penrod and Sam Devotion, Pardon Us, Touchdown, The Man Who Played God, Around the World in 80 Minutes, Lovers Courageous, Alter Tomorrow, Sooky, Hell Divers, Young America, Destry Rides Again...
...Republican choice lay between Secretary of State Clarence J. Brown and David Sinton Ingalls, 33-year-old Cleveland lawyer. Candidate Brown, a small-town newspaper publisher, counted on his own State-wide political machine to win him the nomination. "Dave" Ingalls, campaigning by air, had the moral support of his party's national leaders in Washington where for three years he has been the able, popular, squint-eyed Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aeronautics. Candidate Ingalls became Nominee Ingalls by a 20,000 primary majority over Candidate Brown...
...brags, however well they may be meant, seldom serve the professed purpose for which they are made. Historically, they are a reflection of the "big stick" epigram of Theodore Roosevelt, the most popular, and probably the most unfortunate of his phrases. In the present circumstances, the smug assumption of moral superiority, even if valid, can only alienate further a people who already feel cause for resentment toward the American attitude. The United States would go closer toward a real understanding with Japan by a frank examination of conscience in regard to its own actions, especially the stupid and unnecessary Exclusion...