Word: morale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mind there is a picture of America, anxious to maintain abroad its reputation for high moral tone, at the same time sneaking around the corner to have a cocktall. I feel as do many that the Eighteenth Amendment should be repealed as the root of the whole trouble. It is called a 'noble experiment', but a constitution should contain broad statements of general policy, not experiments...
...John Augustine Ryan, professor of sociology at the Catholic University of America told the House Committee: "Prohibition confuses the mental processes of high officials. Speaking of moral law, President Hoover was attempting [when he cited citizens' moral obligation to support the 18th Amendment] to state a moral principle which was none of his business. He is no more of a moral authority than I am. Let him not lay down dogmatically the law that good citizens should tell others what they should do. The President is no supreme arbiter of the moral duty...
...rapt audience of Czechoslovak Legionnaires last week, towering snowy-haired President Masaryk told the story of the great debate, used it to point the moral of Czechoslovak preparedness...
Vice. James William Crabtree, secretary of the N. E. A., read a report on the moral vicissitudes of Detroit high school pupils. Although there were fewer toss-pots discovered among young Detroiters than in 1917, there was an increase in stealing, parental disrespect, sexual delinquency. To blame: dance halls, magazines, automobiles, liquor, broken homes...
...until I am playing mother roles? ... I have plenty of money. . . . I want to improve my mind. . . . Most of the time you will find me bobbing around Europe. . . ." White Cargo (British). Several U. S. picture companies wanted to produce this, but Will Hays, supervisor of cinema morals, made clear that he would not sanction it. With W. Somerset Maugham's Rain it was salient on his black list. At last United Artists made Rain with Gloria Swanson, calling it Sadie Thompson; Hays permitted its release, but when producers pointed to this precedent as an argument for letting them bring...