Word: humanitarian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That a law shall be enacted to remove the exclusion clause from the new Immigration Bill. I request by my death the withdrawal of the Japanese exclusion clause because I greatly regret that your country, which has always advocated peace from a humanitarian viewpoint and has been known as a leader for peace throughout the world, enacted the Japanese exclusion clause in complete disregard of humanity...
Asked if he were in sympathy with the Grand Duke Nicholas who is trying for a restoration of the Romanovs in Russia, the Prince replied: "No! The Duke's ambitions are political; my ambitions are humanitarian-the aid of the distressed Russians...
...professors "in the name of civilization and humanity and on behalf of the Government and public opinion in France." The Bolshevik said M. Poincaré was tactless and accused him of unwarrantable interference in Russian domestic affairs. The Soviet official journal Izvestia said with due sarcasm: "Where were the humanitarian feelings of the French Government when Russia was surrounded by enemies and the Russian people starving...
French citizens have already subscribed 1,000,000 francs ($40,000) through a committee headed by Léon Bourgeois, humanitarian. Americans are asked...
...Massachusetts showed little more than that he was a conscientious executive. Mr. Johnson, elected Governor of California by his own efforts with the aid of only one newspaper, revested in the people the control of the state government from the Southern Pacific Railroad and forced a host of humanitarian laws through the legislature that lifted the state at once to a high place among our most progressive states. As a campaigner Mr. Johnson compared well with the late Mr. Roosevelt. Mr. Coolidge, on the other hand, was lost sight of even beside the late Mr. Harding...