Word: humanitarian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...short-sighted business man who builds for today only. A progressive man builds with the future in mind. If industrial prosperity is to be ours, we shall need trained and strong workers. To give this year is not a humanitarian project alone; it is good business...
...urge Harvard men to address themselves to the project of building our nation upon a new humanitarian and good business foundation? America's greatest asset has been the courage of her people. Those of us who are in positions of trust and responsibility must see to it that the man-power of our nation is kept unbroken and unimpaired if we hope to stage a comeback for better and more prosperous times. Upon the welfare of the people depends the ultimate welfare of a nation...
...except as it gainsays any action at all, on any side. Innovation must always come about by infinitesimal stages, and in history, changes start in the footnotes and work up to the chapter heads. By the sterile view in question, the efforts of the early Christians and the first humanitarian reformers are alike "wasted votes" and gestures of futility...
...this: No parents could have a more heroic son than Robert who gave up his own life that others might live. He dared Might and died to defend Right for humanity and civilization. To say that he was fighting for China alone would be belittling his gallant and humanitarian deed, because it is for humanity and justice that he died. The name of Robert Short will live long in the scroll of honor of great men, and his meritorious service will ever be in the memory of all Chinese...
Died. Florence Kelley, 72, famed humanitarian, ardent reformer of women's and children's labor laws, longtime secretary of the National Consumers' League, credited with having influenced the social policies of Alfred Emanuel Smith; of complications derived from anemia; in Philadelphia...