Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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John Francis ("Red Mike") Hylan, one-time Mayor of New York-"The greatest sham of the age which has made all mankind its victims has been the plan of inducing foreign governments to adopt the gold standard under the pretense of stabilizing their currencies and then making them large loans at high rates of interest...
...family corporation, Boma Investment Co. Bonfils, who had visited Africa, named it for the thorn bomas built by natives "to keep beasts out." The Bonfils will, opened last week, left practically the whole estate (amount unspecified) to "The Fred G. Bonfils Foundation for the Advancement of the Welfare of Mankind...
...Whereas it is now fitting that due recognition be given by the great State of Louisiana in line with the far-reaching principles enunciated by that illustrious Southerner who sought to break the fetters of mankind throughout the world...
...Middle Ages, the Age of the French Revolution, and today. In making this comparison Professor Becker suggests a whole philosophy of history. "Are we to suppose that the Russian Revolution of the twentieth century, like the French Revolution of the eighteenth, is but another stage in the progress of mankind toward perfection? Or should we think, with Marcus Aurelius, that the man of forty years if he have a grain of sense, . . . has been all that has been and shall be'?" Professor Becker refuses to commit himself explicitly, but he is obviously inclined to agree with the Roman Emperor...
They do their work most thoroughly and with a goodly will. Without them what could we do with the fruit skins and the swill? They are the benefactors of mankind and play a heavy part, Though they annoy us in the morning with their very early start...