Word: humanitarian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...when people who live in glass houses have given up throwing stones, has strutted again into public view. From the days of Poor Richard, it has been the ambition of every editor to be an evangelist: not satisfied with guiding, he wishes to misguide.: In many cases, nevertheless, a humanitarian afterthought has squelched or at least veiled the expression of this instinct...
...other hand, as the recent child labor cases show, once the National Government, operating on the same clause, undertakes a program of humanitarian legislation, then the reserved rights of the states become a very grave consideration indeed...
...opium, and that Japanese merchants now handle most of this dope trade, having replaced the British as the foremost traffikers. This disingenuous attitude of quibbling over means of enforcement will not blind the world to the fact that Japan, while anxious to pretend cooperation with western nations in a humanitarian program, is at bottom unwilling to forfeit the commercial advantage which she draws from the continuance of the opium evil...
...revolution has not met with its expected response in Western countries, it has succeeded in Russia and is a living example to all the workers of the World of what can be accomplished by unity of the proletariat. The Bolsheviki do not lack humanitarian feelings, but the methods they employed in the revolution, such as the Red Terror, were absolutely necessary...
...Mexico but all other countries with which Mexico has relations ; because it is not to be doubted that with the awakening of the spirit of industry among those unfortunate people, the volume of business will be greatly multiplied; and then we shall have performed for our country the great humanitarian work that has been intrusted...