Word: morals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Germany, reveal that more than 1,000 lay brothers and "numerous" priests were fortnight ago on trial or awaiting trial for immorality. Fifty-three had already been convicted. Suddenly Nazi State police swooped down on a Catholic boys' seminary at Heiligenstadt in Thuringia, closed it because of "wretched moral conditions prevailing among the youthful inmates...
...Give up all secret vices. The German secret police keep a file on Soviet citizens, all neatly classified under such headings as "fondness for drink," "political instability," "late hours," "dishonesty and moral perversions...
...school to admit that it might be thinking of steamship fare as well as moral principles was rich Harvard, which announced that "if any senior member of the faculty happens to be in Germany about June 30 he will be designated as the Harvard delegate." The University of Pennsylvania, which had earlier accepted Gottingen's invitation, last week withdrew its acceptance when its representative changed his summer plans...
...such financial cynics as Pundit John T. Flynn, securities speculation is the moral and practical equivalent of a crap game. By more moderate theorists it is conceded the useful function of keeping markets liquid. Last week after President Roosevelt's fatherly warning to Government employes to stay out of the market (see p. 15), New York Stock Exchange President Charles R. Gay found occasion in Chicago to repeat the old argument for speculative liquidity, observing that "calculating, measured speculation has been a constructive force. . . .'' Right back at Mr. Gay came the Securities & Exchange Commission's David...
Boys in Manhattan's public schools are taught, among other things, that honesty is the best policy, that Kipling's It is a great poem with a practical moral message. But, as Jerome Weidman says, "It isn't what you're taught; it's what you learn." Jerome Weidman went to an East Side public school, thought his classmates "a pretty decent bunch." Meeting them again ten years later, he wondered "what had turned the kids I'd played with into these sharp little wise guys . . . what had happened to Kipling...