Word: humanitarian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...convention. There was a whole sea of new faces, delegates from areas hitherto un-unionized before the NRA coal code took effect. President Roosevelt, whose recovery program had raised every miner's pay check from 20% to 300%, was God-blessed as the greatest humanitarian since Lincoln...
Following the general pattern of the League of Nations at Geneva, five committees will be organized to discuss legal and constitutional questions, technical organizations, political subjects, general humanitarian questions, and the German refugee problem. Committee I has chosen for its topic "Reorganization of the League," while Committee II has split into two subcommittees, the first to discuss an economic question and the second to consider "Intellectual Cooperation." "Mandates" is the subject picked by the political Committee and Committee IV has undertaken the consideration of "The Opium Convention." The subject of "German Refugees" has been delegated to a special group...
...good old days of the world war to discover that one man believed that war was hell and that men were like the rats in Norway which swam to sea and drowned. It is a very interesting, indeed a charming plot. Richard Dix is the virile young humanitarian who hates fighting, but he loves a simple lass who tells him that he is as yellow as yellow chalk. Therefore, he enlists, and we next see him mingling with a group of neurasthenic aviators over there. Once in the war, Rocky Thorne becomes a cruel killer. He disobeys orders so that...
...apparent that he is leaning over backwards in pursuit of objectivity. He relates in detail the ghastly breakdown of the agricultural sector, asserts that the standard of living is lower after the Five Year Plan than before, and intimates that the political prisons are not the last word in humanitarian institutions...
...Sunday; and yesterday while Der Marschall und Der Gefreite were wreathed in smiles and the granulation of a subservient Press, the remainder of a worried world hastened to assess the importance of a statistically perfect national revival. A great many have seen fit to rant in humanitarian terminology. The election, so goes the story, was a tragic farce, the picture of a people baring its neck to the heel of a despot. The claim is easily substantiated, but it is a close approach to stupidity to inveigh particularly upon a means when confronted by a commanding fait accompli. For, through...