Word: humanitarian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...appointed a new acting warden, Dr. Frank L. Christian, superintendent of the Elmira Reformatory, humanitarian...
...Greatest Advertisers. It was also Lever Bros. search for raw materials that resulted in the first great industrial concession made by a nation to a manufacturer, and it was Lord Leverhulme who developed the Belgian Congo more successfully than it had been exploited under the vigorous but scarcely humanitarian methods of Belgium's Leopold...
...first time since 1924 that James Ramsay MacDonald, pacificist, socialist, internationalist, has represented the British Empire at a conference of the great powers. Particularly last week it was advisable for Mr. MacDonald to show himself the broad, humanitarian champion of peace that he has always been. The Latin powers were in a huff, galled by their defeat at The Hague by Britain's stubborn, ungracious Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden (see col. 2). The French especially were furious. Therefore, on his way to Geneva, last week, astute Scot MacDonald stopped off at Paris with his apple-cheeked daughter...
Mexico's squarejawed, hard-eyed President Emilio Fortes Gil is an oldfangled rough-and-tumble battling lawyer with a newfangled humanitarian conscience. Last week he finished jamming through two thirds of Mexico's 28 state legislatures a Constitutional amendment. It permits enactment by the Mexican Congress of a law which Senor Fortes Gil declares will "create an equilibrium between the Tyranny of Capital and the Tyranny of Labor...
Plainly the Tyranny of Capital and the Tyranny of Labor between which a humanitarian President is trying to establish "equilibrium" were both furiously suspicious, last week, of the Labor Code which Seņor Fortes Gil and his huge agrarian following in the Mexican Congress can put through if they stubbornly so choose...