Word: humanitarian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...attempt to meet the inflamed miners halfway results disagreeably in mob violence, several variously assorted murders, a broken head for John, explosions, collapse in the value of the property. An outsider, unhampered by humanitarian scruples, buys a controlling interest in the mines for a fraction of their value...
...reason difficult to ascertain, in those days, as indeed often today, the criminal was regarded as an evil does by his own volition Remedy punish the culpit until his tortured flesh makes his mind swear nevermore Humanitarian impulses gradually lessened the severity of this punishment, but the conception of the criminal as one who is mentally diseased or one who was made such by the cruel forces of social environment has but slowly gained acceptance...
...reports of the building of a more airy, lighter prison at Joliet are quite in accord with modern humanitarian impulses, but a more fundamental progress is revealed by news items in Massachusetts papers. All the county jails are to be visited by psychiatrists and social workers who will investigate the mental conditions of the prisoners. Yet a mere report will accomplish little...
...question has been asked: What will happen if in the course of bacterial evolution an equally vicious and infectious human disease should develop. Our humanitarian ideas would not permit us to use the exterminative method employed against the hoof and mouth disease. Fortunately such a condition is not imminent...
When it is also realized that there are now over fourteen million foreign born in the United States, the necessity of immediate and drastic restriction in order to preserve the national homogeueity will be obvious. Whatever may be its benevolent humanitarian desire, this country can no longer afford to endanger its own future as a united nation by a blindly generous welcome of all those who present themselves at its gates. The more instinct of self-preservation alone must force a reluctant closing of the doors...