Word: civic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...earthshakers, but they hit the neighbor where he lives." Selby's chats take place Mondays through Fridays at 6:25 p.m. on Mr. Fixit, a local show telecast by Station WCAU-TV. Sometimes blond, crew-cut Earl Selby, 37, uses his five minutes to point up some civic horror, as when he appeared unshaven and in tattered clothes to talk about Skid Row and what it costs the city-$650,000 in relief and a high incidence of tuberculosis. Another time, discussing trees, he wore a lumberjack's hat and carried an ax. More often, he simply helps...
When De Sapio seized the leadership of Tammany Hall in 1949, he found himself in command of a rotten, rat-infested political hulk. From its days of corrupted power, Tammany stank. It exacted a heavy price in public money and civic decency for a service. To New York, as to many another U.S. city in the period 1820-1920, came immigrants by the thousands and by the tens and hundreds of thousands-Irish driven by famine, Italians by population pressures, Jews by persecutions. These were not all or mostly the brave or the gallant; many were the fearful, the rootless...
Politics & Government. As an Arkansas lad, Don Quarles never knew any such animal existed as "a good Republican." In the pleasant, suburban Republican community of Englewood, he switched to the G.O.P. A good citizen, he worked on endless, dreary civic jobs, refused a salary for heading a $13 million county sewer project. He made $300 a year as a city councilman, but when he worked up to mayor, his pay dropped down to $100. He has so few political connections that state G.O.P. leaders were plugging two other New Jersey Republicans (Singer Manufacturing Co.'s President Milton Lightner...
...Demo-Christians (26) and Neo-Fascists (3). The Communist coalition, which won by only 139 votes in 1951, has done its best to make of San Marino a showpiece of Socialist effort. It has built roads, houses, hotels; it has eliminated unemployment, established old-age pensions and given women civic rights (but not the vote). Where once, after years of Fascist rule, only a stony path led to San Marino, a smooth motor road now brings thousands of dollars in tourist trade every year...
Mayor Tibbits hopes to deposit his discoveries in the proper place. Taking "some of my most obvious gems with me," he is leaving England this week for a civic visit to Warwick, R.I., intends to stop off at Yale. "It would be a great pleasure," says he, "if the authorities of Yale should ask me to undertake further research on the history of their founder." If not, there is always Harvard...