Word: humanitarian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bourgeoisie of humanitarian Europe already have spent all their efforts in crying against the Red Terror, and with smiles on their faces fully endorse the new and ugly sight at Sofia...
...this question. America, Jesuit weekly, printed an article which concluded: "So it is that notice is served upon America that the 'detestable thing' for which God slew Onan is to be worked for on political grounds. . . . The activity of these propagandists upon so-called scientific and humanitarian grounds seems loudly to call for a more active defense of civic integrity and personal purity against these Shavian-Wellsian-Sanger ian-Onanists who work to defile the temple of the Holy Ghost." The Commonweal, organ of the Calvert Society, replied to Margaret Sanger's opinions by disputing her premises...
...said to be economy. This theory won many of the Government supporters over to the Opposition and was said to have seriously jeopardized the passage of the bill; for many prominent Deputies averred that, if the country was too poor to send an adequate representation to Geneva to discuss humanitarian reforms, it was decidedly too poor to spend money in the interests of "mere sport...
This apparent dominance of economic motives even over the most pressing of humanitarian needs is not a matter for excessive cynicism. But the human race still depends, as it always has, on cooperation for preservation; and unless public opinion finds solutions for such problems, this civilization must go the way of its predecessors. It is only to be hoped that this conference--a seeming failure--may prove to have been the lens that will focus the energy of the world's conscience on a problem of disgracefully prolonged existence...
...reservations. This is the first opportunity for almost a decade in Boston to see one of the most famous and funniest of Mr. Shaw's plays, and those people who follow the best in the theatre are taking no chances of missing such an excellent production of the great "humanitarian naturalist...