Word: morality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...upholding the verdict in the "Salem birth control case," the Massachusetts Supreme Court yesterday threw an effective obstacle in the path of social progress. Basing its brief on a fact of dubious relevancy--"that the moral and social wrongs arising from the prevention of conception appeared . . . threatening in 1879"--the Court showed a deliberate unwillingness to interpret the law in the light of modern needs. The decision was a great deal more concerned with the "sexual immorality" it hoped to prevent, than with the appalling human misery it was perpetuating. Until knowledge long in possession of the rich is made...
...Moral", a three act comedy by Ludwig Thoma, will be presented by the Verein Turmwaechter, Harvard German Club, on Saturday evening at the Cantabrigia Club...
...principal humor is supplied by the gentlemen of the society who attempt to correct this vice, but become involved in a doubtfully moral association with "a lady of leisure...
...Manhattan last week, 230-lb. Tony Galento-also known as Two-Ton Tony, the Jersey Nightstick, the TNT Kid, the One-Man Riot and the "beer barrel that walks like a man"-achieved something of a moral victory when he faced Heavyweight Nathan Mann, a fairly well-rated boxer, as a headliner in Madison Square Garden. Suspended by the New York State Athletic Commission last winter because he insisted upon, training on beer and hot dogs in his Orange saloon and doing his road work at the wheel of an automobile, Bartender Galento, whose face is the color of biscuit...
Meanwhile in Albany, Protestant ministers had attended a hearing on a proposal to strike from the State Constitution its article against gambling. Though they were voluble concerning the moral aspects of gambling, the ministers were unable to explain why gambling, any more than prostitution, should be specifically unconstitutional. Roman Catholics kept mum. Their tidy attitude on this question is that gambling is licit if: 1) the gamer owns and can afford to lose what he wagers; 2) he acts of his own free will; 3) there is no fraud; 4) there is equality among the parties to the game...