Word: moralize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...theory the court guards the bankrupt's assets, with all the moral rigor of the U. S. behind it. In practice the judge appoints a supposedly disinterested and trustworthy person as receiver who does the actual work, subject only to final court review. The Federal law fixes the service charges a receiver may make upon the assets, ranging from 6% on $500 or less, down to 1% on $10,000 or more. In effect the creditors pay the receiver from funds they would otherwise get. Thus receiverships are profitable political plums whereby many a lawyer swells his income...
...have a moral as well as a material interest in seeing that we are as free to turn to New York as to London when we need money...
...leave again, sometimes, with the seniors. And in it all the great metropolitan daily sees a significant object lesson. Old Gold goes down, but the fight goes on, and when the final smoke from the fray has cleared persistency will win the day. For dejected Freshmen remains the moral: Not a defeat in a class full...
...Rockefeller Jr. Julius Rosenwald, philanthropist and board-chairman of Sears, Roebuck & Co. came out for Mr. Rockefeller Jr. with the statement: "It was fitting for stockholders in any enterprise to see that the business is managed by officers whom they can trust." But Philanthropist Rosenwald's influence was moral, not financial. He owns no stock in Standard Oil of Indiana...
...Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity, has drawn on his long experience with American institutions of higher learning to conclude, so he says, that the undergraduates of today are very much like their fathers, and that there is no real cause for alarm among social thinkers in the mental and moral condition of the youth of the land...