Word: humanitarian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...regarding G. W. P. Hunt: long time governor of Arizona. 'Unique' indeed is a public speaker, let alone a state executive who deliberately picks his nose while on the public platform. In fact unique is no word for it. 'A great humanitarian who never signed a Death Warrant' but Commitments to the Insane Asylum instead, where ex-condemned on escaping would return on their own volition because the "grub" was so good. 'The State Prison was transformed from a place of horror' to where the convicts were fed on Kansas flour instead...
Governor Hunt is known as a great humanitarian. As governor he has never signed the death warrant of any fellow human being. He transformed the State prison from a place of horror into a university, had the prisoners examined medically and treated in line with modern scientific knowledge. He developed a splendid system of roads throughout the State. He made the big corporations obey the safety laws in the mines and reduced mine accidents to a negligible quantity. He has been absolutely fair to labor. He has been constructive and forward-looking...
...Because Humanitarian Clifford Whittingham Beers was once crazy, the American Foundation for Mental Hygiene was created last week...
...same year (1908) he founded the mental hygiene movement. The first society was in Connecticut. Now half the United States have similar ones. Coordinating their activities is the National Committee for Mental Hygiene. Humanitarian Beers is its secretary. Its aim has been to "enable men, women and children to live happier, healthier and more efficient lives through better understanding and management of the processes of their minds and of the controlling forces in human behavior...
...parts of the country. They complained of the insecurity of their finances. Money for their work has come haphazardly. Hence to get a regular income they organized the American Foundation for Mental Hygiene. They want a million dollar endowment. Already they have $150,000 pledged, a condition that made Humanitarian Beers, now 52, glow with happy zeal...