Word: humanitarian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cynicism of the week much relished by the Montreux diplomats was a British proposal to be allowed to take through the Dardanelles 15,000 additional tons of war boats "for humanitarian purposes." Asked Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff: "What is the meaning of humanitarian...
...strong est unions in the land. As its local's three-year contract with great Carnegie Steel Co. in Homestead, Pa., seven miles below Pittsburgh, drew toward a close, the company proposed that the new contract include a wage cut. The union refused. Famed for his humanitarian statements on the subject of Labor's rights, Andrew Carnegie skipped off to Scotland, left his mills in charge of hardbitten, union-hating Henry Clay Frick...
...marriage; Lydia Holly, the intelligent and unfortunate daughter of an old rogue whose impecunious family lives in a derelict railway car; Miss Sigglesthwaite, learned science mistress of the high school, who is totally incompetent to rule her incorrigible pupils: Snaith, the wealthy alderman, whose reforms are intellectual rather than humanitarian; Midge Carne, the neurotic, unhappy adolescent granddaughter of Lord Sedgmire. One cannot fail to enjoy the star-crossed romance of Sarah Burton, new head mistress of the high school, and Councillor Robert Carne, a sporting former...
Hitching his chair a little nearer, President Huber suggested drawing up a "humanitarian accord between Italy and Ethiopia...
...agreement," said he, "covering such matters as the treatment of prisoners, the bombing of open towns, and the use of the Red Cross emblem." Il Duce's eyes flashed. "Italy does not admit," he roared, "that she has been carrying on the war other than in the most humanitarian way possible-under the circumstances." Under the startled nose of President Huber the Italian Dictator napped an elaborately illustrated booklet showing the mutilated bodies of Italian road builders caught in a raid last February. "This is how Ethiopia treats her prison ers," thundered Benito Mussolini. "What reliance can we place...