Word: human
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Democrat Lucas took an unprecedented step. At the invitation of New York's Republican Irving Ives, he appeared before the Republican Policy Committee to ask for help. "This matter," he told the G.O.P., "doesn't involve politics. It involves human beings, their lives and their futures. And it involves the prestige of this nation. Both parties are pledged to a more liberal...
...paid to the union fund for every ton of coal mined, John L. Lewis and his U.M.W. were fighting a kind of poverty and despair unknown to most of the prosperous U.S. So far, said Fund Director Roche, the money has been barely enough to attack the "backlog of human misery [that] has been rolled up through decades" in the mining country. In the past twelve months, she said, the fund took in $90,891,905, but had to spend $14 million more than it took...
...Council embarked on its task this week (probable agenda items: a European passport, a declaration of human rights), France's Georges Bidault made a significant point: "In other times this event would have been received as revolutionary. It is a sign of the new times that it appears so natural to public opinion today that no one is astonished...
Stomach Specialist Sandweiss, working with Surgeon Harry C. Saltzstein, decided to call the unknown factor "anthelone" (from the Greek words for anti-ulcer). They could not isolate it, but they got encouraging results from experimental injections of a urine extract in both animal and human ulcer victims...
...what to do. One women's group wrote me that I had once been a perfect example for mothers and now I was a horrible example. They saw me in Joan of Arc and thought I was a saint. I'm not. I'm just a human being...