Word: mankinde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There is no substantial evidence that I know of to support the idea that President Wilson believed that "mankind could attain a kind of international millennium at one bound," or that he confused peace-making with other world needs, or that he blundered in placing the Covenant into the Treaty of Versailles, or that he failed to publicize his League idea before going to Paris...
Such troublous facts and troubling doctrines were making double trouble last week. They were set forth in The Races of Mankind, a 46-page, 10? pamphlet published by the Public Affairs Committee, Inc., designed to fit a serviceman's pocket and to fight Nazi racial doctrines. The pamphlet was brightly written by Columbia Anthropologists Ruth Benedict and Gene Weltfish, and brightly illustrated (see cut). But U.S.O. President Chester Irving Barnard had called the pamphlet controversial and ordered the Y.M.C.A. to stop distributing it in U.S.O. clubs-after 50,000 copies had been sold...
Disgusted Donors. Bulk purchasers of the pamphlet, in addition to the Y.M.C.A., included the National Smelting Co., the Junior League, the Federal Council of Churches, the American Baptist Home Mission Society. Said the liberal, nonprofit Public Affairs Committee, which publishes The Races of Mankind: "We have had no complaints; many servicemen have written for extra copies for buddies." The Y.M.C.A. said it would distribute its remaining 10,000 copies to civilian groups. Other reactions were not so measured...
...Labor League for Human Rights, which in 1943 gave $12,000,000 to the U.S.O. through the National War Fund, denied that The Races of Mankind could be called "controversial...
Virtue without Mortgages. Santayana's maternal grandfather José Borras, who "became a Deist, an ardent disciple of Rousseau, and I suspect a Freemason," fled Spain in 1823, settled in Glasgow, and moved to "rural, republican, distinguished, Jeffersonian Virginia. Here, if anywhere, mankind had turned over a new leaf, and in a clean new world, free from all absurd traditions and tyrant mortgages, was beginning to lead a pure life of reason and virtue." In 1835 Grandfather was back in Spain, U.S. consul at Barcelona, appointed by Andrew Jackson at a low point in U.S.-Spanish relations...