Word: humanitarian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fact that the U. S., politically committed to nonmembership in the League of Nations, recognizes and cooperates with the various humanitarian and scientific projects of the League is proof of the high quality of these activities. Probably the most active department of the League and perhaps the most beneficent in its results is the Health Commission under Dr. Ludwik Rajchman of Poland. It maintains a staff of epidemiologists and other experts in eastern Europe and parts of the world where outbreaks of typhus, plague and other dangerous diseases are in progress. It arranges international visits for health officials...
...locking of the door automatically switches on an electric light which illuminates a card of directions for the person locked in. The card tells how to turn the stopcock of the tank, which releases the oxygen gradually as needed. Mr. Bossom will not patent his device because of its humanitarian need. The first one is being made for a Galveston, Tex., bank. Many vault imprisonments which do not have fatal results are said to escape public notice...
...poses, of course, as the great friend of the People. Horatio Bottomley, its notorious editor, led many " patriotic " and " humanitarian " enterprises during the war, and finally went to prison for peculations of their funds. But John Bull goes on with all the devices of American yellow journalism and a few master touches of its own. The contents of its current number includes: " The World, the Flesh and the Devil" (tabloid editorials), "Who Shields the Wicked Woman," " Houses Exchanged for Girls," " Candid Communications " (open letters from John Bull to his friends and enemies), "Human Documents" (an enlarged and unexpurgated version...
...When capitalistic farmers have nowhere to sell their produce and are compelled to burn or throw their grain into the water, and when the industrial capitalists, owing to the same fact, are compelled to cut down production, then a cause is easily created for humanitarian action and for philanthropy. . . . We, therefore, quite understand the noble feelings of Mr. Hughes, and do not doubt the humane feelings of the American Government...
...fact. Men will continue to be forced to marry, or women not to marry, if they are to win their inheritance. Nevada will continue to have as many Rhodes Scholars as New York. Cat-sanitariums and homes for eeble-minded poll-parrots will continue to prosper, while "humanitarian" institutions in the literal sense of the word are suffering from want of funds. This is a part of the heritage of Past to Present...