Word: morality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...committee was empowered to recommend dismissal for "one or more of the following reasons: a) incompetency, b) neglect of duty, c) physical or mental incapacity, d) dishonesty or immorality, or e) conviction of a felony involving moral turpitude." Reasons c and e were discarded by the group and it conducted the hearings to find out whether any of the other three "causes" were present in the cases of the accused teachers...
...quite obvious that Mr. Friedrich has failed to distinguish between a movie which arouses prejudice, and one which, through method of interpretation, offends the arbitrarily imposed moral standards demanded of all pictures by one religion, but in no way attacks or stirs up hatred against this group. To indiscriminately lump the two into one category is both unwarranted and distinctly dangerous. There is a fundamental difference between propagation of hate and a disagreement over moral standards...
...article criticizes the hyprocrisy of national fraternity officers who supposedly abide by "the fine moral and ethical precepts" of their organization's charters but who in practice firmly oppose admission of minority groups. Romer asks the question: "Should organizations continue that are in direct opposition to the ideals of our undergraduates and of our democracy...
...broken faster than a soda cracker by American "fascists" (who have presumably taken over the Pentagon), when he interferes with the plans of slinky Spy Sherwood, who is helping an important Nazi war criminal to escape to the U.S. zone. A German scientist points the picture's timely moral: "Two worlds have met on the Elbe's shores. Germany cannot just stay in between. The time to make a choice has come...
...where she meets a suave professional gambler (Stephen McNally) and takes her first innocent fling at roulette. While her journalist husband (Robert Preston) is busy on an assignment, she takes a few more flings. By this time Barbara is a goner. Eventually she loses a wrestling match with her moral scruples, gambles away the family savings, and runs off in shame to join forces with Gambler McNally...