Word: humanitarian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...leave Upton Sinclair unmoved, since he has magnificently succeeded in what, after all, he set out to do: to write Upton Sinclair's version of history and get millions of people to read it. (Lanny, incidentally, his faith in the future undimmed, decides to devote himself henceforth to humanitarian journalism...
Frank Murphy, ex-governor of Michigan, onetime Attorney General, the court's only Roman Catholic, a man of humanitarian impulses without the intellectual drive and capacity to make himself highly effective...
...American people . . . are not speaking out against the idea of peace . . . They are speaking out against a small political group in this country which has failed to live up to the rules of the game in a democracy . . . Tell the folks at home that Americans are antiCommunist, not anti-humanitarian, and being anti-Communist does not automatically mean they are pro-war." Snapped Playwright Lillian Hellman: "I would recommend, Mr. Cousins, that when you talk about your hosts at dinner, wait until you have gone home...
...truly satanic pride . . . You speak of ... spiritual values, but side with the capitalism of America . . . Your teacher, Jesus Christ [he gulped and began again]-Our teacher, Jesus Christ, said that his kingdom was not of this world . . . the fact is that the church has betrayed the Gospel ... in its humanitarian and social aspect...
...stated purpose of the newly formed society is to hold general meetings with lectures by pacifist leaders and to conduct small independent groups to study religious, humanitarian, and ethical pacifist theories. The organization's 18 members have already formed three such study groups...