Word: humanitarian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harking back to President Hoover's early suggestion that seaborne food supplies be immunized during war, "Admiral" Gardiner concluded thus: "The most humanitarian of pacific intentions led President Hoover into exhibiting the abysmal ignorance of why navies are maintained and of how they are used to accomplish their major mission. . . . Acceptance of his suggestion that would have made for bigger and bloodier wars. Yet such is the psychology that is not only controlling our internal naval policy but dictating its external subordination to those of foreign naval powers. It has been necessary to say what has been said to have...
...read it, walked across a terrace, dropped to a half-kneeling position and handed it to Commissar for Foreign Affairs Maxim Litvinov. Cried she dramatically: "I come to you with a petition as the peasants were wont to do before the Tsar!" The message began: IN THE NAME OF HUMANITARIAN PRINCIPLES PLEASE HELP MY WIFE IN MOSCOW. . . . It was signed by one Dmitri Pavlovich Krynine, onetime Soviet expert on roadbuilding sent to the U. S. to study local methods, who was injured in a motor accident, decided to remain in the U. S., is now Research Associate in Transportation...
...London and New York bankers did not lend that money for the humanitarian purpose of saving Germany," said he. "They lent as ordinary business and banking transactions, to make a profit. They borrowed a good deal of it from France at a low rate of interest and lent at a high rate. There is no reason now why France should assume a part of these burdens...
Warden Lawes hailed the departure as bringing into the prison administration field a new class of men who, possessing intelligence as well as a humanitarian background, will adopt the work as a career to replace the haphazard political appointees serving as wardens in almost all prisons outside of New York State...
Herbert Livingston Satterlee, 67, silver-haired, silver-bearded, blue-eyed corporation lawyer and humanitarian. Near him as he stood at the Manhattan hearing last week sat his wife, who is John Pierpont Morgan's sister. She knew that this cancer dogfight was distracting Mr. Satterlee from his battle to get back for depositors the savings they entrusted to the failed Bank of U. S. (TIME, Dec. 22 et seq.). She knew how he had got into the cancer fight: at Lawyer Durbrow's request. Mr. Satterlee had organized the New York Better Health Foundation. Then he had learned...