Word: decentes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...juvenile crimes [Sept. 14] seems to ignore completely the basic source of trouble. The Roman Catholic Church must accept its fair share of the responsibility. As long as the church insists on its adherents bringing children into the world regardless of their ability or prospects of providing them with decent homes, so long shall we require "more jails" to meet "force with force...
Profit & Pride. More and more white builders, sensing the demand for decent, moderate-priced Negro housing, have taken the plunge into the suburban market. It has its special hazards; in some areas, white building inspectors and utility companies drag their feet when Negro tracts open. Negro mortgage money is often a stiff 1% or 2% more than for whites (it is easier to get loans for prospering Negroes in the Deep South than it is in Northern states). But mortgage companies are beginning to realize that steadily employed Negroes are a good risk. Chicago's Park Terrace even...
...that readers of lending-library triangle stories will have no trouble appreciating. The enraged husband divorces his wife; years later they meet again. She is now another man's concubine and he is remarried; but love conquers, they go into a clinch, and all is forgiven. Being a decent chap, the hero keeps his new wife as well...
...remembers best is the first Russian prisoner he saw: a frightened, ignorant peasant reduced to blubbering tears by the offer of a cigarette from his Finnish captors, and later brought to hysterical laughter when he realized that Mydans' camera was not a deadly weapon. Then, having been decent to.the prisoner, a Finnish major turned to Mydans and, between clenched teeth, assured him: "Russians are pigs...
...would like to see him have to fly along in my chopper and just make a circuit of the District [of Columbia], and to see the uncountable homes that have been built all around, modest but decent, fine comfortable homes...