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...French picked out the worst block in his holdings and ecstatically presented it to Mr. Jones as a worthy subject for clearance. His choice was "Lung Block," so called because of its high tuberculosis mortality rate. On it lived 650 families. In its backyards were seven jakes. On this fester Mr. French proposed to build a low-cost housing project. Mr. Jones agreed to do business, and RFC lent 85% of the required...
...startling in its originality; nevertheless; it is interesting, and piques the intelligence through its violence. "A Housewife Looks at Advertising" is an article of the same class, though on a subject not quite so hackneyed; due of course, to the dependence of most periodicals on their advertising this fester has received little treatment. The only fault of the discussion in question is that it tends to disregard the more glaring flaws in modern advertising, and in general, to attack the problem with an inept touch which leaves the reader with little doubt that the work is really that...
...Services Rendered (by William Somerset Maugham; Sam H. Harris, producer). A novel in shortcuts, this Maugham play deals with an English family and its friends. The War has been over 15 years, but its wounds still fester. Father Ardsley is a solicitor, a portly British character of the type that sings carols on Christmas cards. He has a wife, who he does not know is about to die of an incurable disease, and three daughters. Lois (Jane Wyatt) is pretty, selfish and extremely attractive to a rich older man. Ethel is bitterly disappointed in an earthy, loutish farmer whom...
HARVARD ST. MARK'S Fester, r.w. l.w., Spaulding Mays,c c, Beardman Welcott, l.w., r.w., Hallowell McGreger, r.d., l.d., Bellins David, l.d. r.d., Barton Lougee, g g., Caleman...
...your population in urban centres and only 10% on the land. That is a danger to life. After the fourth generation the energy of the country man is worn out in the city .... [and the unemployed] gather in dark slums and in one room ... so that life will fester into rottenness. . . . How is the city going to perpetuate itself . . .? Keep a larger population on the land. Rural industries must be interspersed with agriculture. There must be created what I call a rural society with an enlarged civic spirit like that in the Greek city states. ... I should like to supplicate...