Word: humanitarian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...passionate humanitarian and New Dealer, Wallace initiated many radical policies that have long since been accepted as routine functions of Government: distribution of surplus food to the needy, price supports for key crops, production controls, federal management of U.S. agriculture. Many of his phrases ("the ever-normal granary," "the century of the common man") entered the language, as his agricultural schemes left their imprint on the land...
...underestimates his audience and is overly concerned with propagandizing. So he loads down his ship with too many people, steers it through a mire o humanitarian cliches, and, glug, it sinks...
President Johnson has magnanimously offered to open U.S. gates to Cuban refugees and all "oppressed peoples." Castro's decision to liberalize Cuban emigration policy left the President no political alternative. From a humanitarian standpoint, however, our economic system and legal code are not geared to the large scale influx of Cubans which may follow...
Emigrating Cubans will be forced to live on federal relief with their relatives in the already over-crowded ghettos of Miami, New York City, and Newburg, N.Y. This kind of oversight does not seem to represent the best "humanitarian tradition...
Cavanagh was helped into office initially by Detroit's half million Negroes, who were bitterly resentful of shoddy treatment by previous administrations and rough handling by a virtually all-white police force. His first step as mayor was to make a humanitarian Michigan Supreme Court Justice his police commissioner. The city began hiring and promoting more Negro police, integrated two-man patrol cars for the first time; and the police commissioner supervised meetings with Negro groups to discuss police problems. Cavanagh appointed a Negro city controller, highest appointive office ever held by a Negro in Detroit...