Word: humanitarian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...present case, Mr. Paley places broadcasting in the same bed with the national press and demands for it the same editorial powers that newspapers enjoy. Under Mr. Paley's gentlemanly and humanitarian administration, Columbia has proved its right to those powers and its ability to use them with wisdom and impartiality. He is to be congratulated for his personal ability and philosophy and the fundamental honesty of his organization. There obtains, however, a vitally important distinction between the newspapers and the broadcasting chains, namely, the chains are under ninety day licenses from the national government...
Months ago famed Swedish Humanitarian Eric Dahlberg warned his countrymen what might be the result of Haile Selassie's visit to Stockholm in 1925 as Prince Regent. On that occasion the little Ethiopian persuaded crack Swedish officers including General Virgin to resign from the Army, took them to Addis Ababa where they have trained Ethiopian troops. Said Herr Dahlberg: "We are not sure but what if Italian aviators fail to get our Swedish military instructors at Addis Ababa they may not try to get some of our Swedish ambulance units in the field...
...station crowd, "of my interest in this State and in this section of this State, because in the Tennessee Valley the nation as a whole is conducting-I hate to call it an experiment because it has got beyond that stage -but it is conducting a great humanitarian work which because of"-the train began to move-"its already proven success is going to mean much for the country in the days to come.'' The train was pulling out and Franklin Roosevelt, grasping tight the arm of Gus Gennerich, pitched the microphone into which he had been speaking...
...party, but this year for the first time giving the old ones headaches, are Canada's Socialists, the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation led by that poor organizer but "Great Humanitarian of the Prairie Provinces." Mr. James Shaver Woodsworth. Opposed to violence, but favoring a non-bloody Canadian revolution in the sense that the State would nationalize all property except farms and homes, C. C. F. ran 118 candidates last week in Canada's 245 constituencies, offering the nation its choice of Socialism...
...encountered by the Esquimaux of Labrador in their daily life, Sir Wilfred Grenfell, world famous founder and promoter of the Grenfell Mission, explained last night to a large audience in Phillips Brooks House the nature and extent of difficulties faced by doctors and nurses who devote their lives to humanitarian work among the natives...