Word: equal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Beleagured Mr. Mumford was ducking other brickbats. Stuyvesant tenants wrote indignantly that their quarters were equal to anything in town at two or three times the rental and "they feel that they are in heaven." Said Mumford grumpily: "Like almost all New Yorkers, who have spent most of their lives in cramped, sunless, dusty and even garbagy blighted areas, they have no proper basis for judging Stuyvesant Town ... If one judges housing not in terms of rents and profits and prestige but in terms of human decency, the greater part of New York consists, in Patrick Geddes' words...
...reasons for retirement this time seemed to add up to equal parts health, pique and finances: "I'll work on until June and then, because of my blood pressure, I'll quit for a year at least." He added bitterly: "When Stop the Music can give three iceboxes away instead of two and get listeners, it's a silly business to be in anyway." And what about death & taxes? "You wind up being a sieve for the Treasury Department . . . All you're working toward is a coffin, and I never saw one with a built...
...Federal Council, in its "Statement on Human Rights," went on record as opposing Jim Crow in any form-and called for equal, nonsegregated participation of all races in all phases of the "social and public life of the community," including housing, education, recreation, transportation and businesses serving the public "such as stores, theaters, hotels and restaurants...
...condemn the tragic lack of foresight of the New Deal administration which has brought out ally China to the brink of disaster. The situation in China is equal in importance to the situation in Western Europe. (2) We favor immediate, adequate economic and military assistance to the legally constituted Chinese government conditioned on strict supervision by American personnel...
...Gazette, which began its 130th year last week, was founded by Printer William Woodruff, who ferried his press from Tennessee by canoe. "Mister J.N." Heiskell, who also came from Tennessee, has run it for the last 46 years. He has fought against governors and utilities, and for equal (but separate) opportunities for Negroes. He hates monopoly journalism; the Gazette once bought the rival Democrat, but Heiskell soon got them divorced. He likes to tell fellow Southern publishers that if they don't spend money to get good editorial pages, they shouldn't blame their readers for not reading...