Word: humanitarian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...course everything anybody can learn by investigating the ocean and the organisms that live in it will be useful to somebody in some way at some time." So said the late Edward Wyllis Scripps, journalist and humanitarian, before founding the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California. Last week came news of a characteristic undertaking of this institution. It stood sponsor for a whaling expedition off the San Clemente Islands...
...constabulary, trained by and under the command of U. S. officers for ten years; 6) that all the foregoing considerations show that the arrangement Nicaragua desires, so far from forming part of an imperialistic scheme of U. S. aggrandizement in Central America, is nothing less than a highly humanitarian project sought by Nicaragua...
Louis Marshall, Manhattan lawyer: "My 70th birthday, last week, was seized upon by my admirers as an occasion to call me 'great humanitarian,' 'foremost Jew,' 'great constitutional lawyer.' Julius Rosenwald revived my late wife's term of 'the E. J.-Enthusiastic Jew.' Judge Cardoza said I was 'a great civic institution.' My law partner, Samuel Untermyer, called me 'the most prodigious worker I have ever known.' Besides members of my own race, such men as Elihu Root, James W. Wadsworth Jr., Justice Harlan F. Stone, George W. Wickersham and James Weldon Johnson wrote tributes which were published in the current...
...land values. Let Mr. Statler promise to build a hotel anywhere from Trenton to Tacoma. they will see that it is financed. They do not realize that he finances his new hotels from the operating profits of his old, and that, if he were to go to public financing, humanitarian that he is, he would want to be certain that not only were promoters prosperous and bondholders satisfied, but also that preferred shareholders received their dividends...
...destruction to Indians, after a band of redskins had yanked his wife naked from her blazing bed and scalped her before his eyes. The hero-perhaps Mr. Curwood as he would like to have been-is golden-haired, steel-sinewed David Rock who, through his attachment to the humanitarian Black Hunter, is suspected of treason by his foppish, malicious French overlords and lives through to wed silken-lashed Anne St. Denis only by the slim width of a tomahawk blade. History pours forth aplenty through the tale, but not more than Mr. Curwood's vast and romantic public...