Word: humanitarian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...make easily accessible by the public information and devices which have bearing on matters of health and therapeutics. Men on the faculty who invent and perfect such devices do so certainly not because they expect to derive profits from their inventions, but because they have a genuine scientific and humanitarian interest in the subject. For a man to invent some therapeutic machine and then patent it so that it can not be duplicated or perfected in indeed to display a total lack of altruistic and humanitarian movies...
Sample of Author Muggeridge's distaste for Russia: "Jerry-built immensity made and inhabited by slaves. Everything most bestial and most vulgar-barbarian arrogance and salesman servility; humanitarian sentimentality and hypocrisy; rotarian Big Business and Prosperity. . . . Do you really believe . . . that these awful plays are good; these wretched people happy; these revolting Jews, great leaders and prophets; these decrepit buildings, fine architecture; these dingy slums, new socialist cities; these empty slogans bawled mechanically, a new religion; these stale ideas (superficial in themselves and even then misunderstood), the foundation and hope of the future...
Well, it was extremely funny, wasn't it -- about as hilarious as a Nazi Jew flogging would be. Unquestionably, nothing is so diverting as brutally to mistreat a group of earnest, serious men who are giving their time and services in the cause of a humanitarian ideal. On the other hand it requires very little courage to heckle and boo and pelt grapefruit from the comforting security of the crowd, and clowning always draws approbation. The next logical step would be to overturn the hearse at a funeral amid shouts of laughter...
When Jacob Riis, the eminent humanitarian, started his campaign for amelioration of the living conditions of the poor, the American slum had already come to be regarded as a social evil of primary importance. Years of agitation and legislation have reaped no material harvest, and the slums are now larger, filthier, and a more serious menace than ever. Recently New York officials were forced to evacuate a few of that city's 4,000 or more firetraps, of which three immediately justified the move by burning to the ground--or rather to the dingy concrete courts which surrounde...
...favoring the business of a few Representatives' constituents. In favor of the Reedsville project were: 1) the argument that the factory's costs would enable the Government to judge more expertly whether private manufacturers were charging too much for post-office equipment; 2) the fact that the humanitarian aims of the Reedsville project are thoroughly in accord with New Deal principles; 3) the fact that Mrs. Roosevelt personally wants...