Word: homelessness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rains. Over the Central Plateau of Mexico the rains descended and the floods arose, threatening inundation of Mexico City. Hundreds were rendered homeless; crops in large areas were ruined; railroads were washed out at many points; canals burst their banks; a bull ring almost collapsed; many houses were partially submerged...
Heavy rains and tornadoes swept eastern Siberia last week, raising the River Amurat the rate of an inch per hour. Soon more than 100 villages were flooded; 40,000 peasants were rendered homeless; 100 drowned. The angry waters continued to swirl, threatening Khabarovsk, important Siberian city. The storm showed no sign of abating...
Jewish Relief. Although no Jew was killed in Palestine last week, many were rendered homeless by the destruction of their houses; and students at the Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem found most of its buildings unsafe or utterly shaken down...
Levees. Popular confidence in the levee system has been shaken, if not destroyed, by their failure to prevent the present flood from inundating some 20,000 square miles and making homeless some 600,000 people. But expert opinion still clings to them as the backbone of flood prevention. Doubtless they will, in the future, be built higher and stronger, but, as far as can at present be determined, the levee will always carry the main burden of confining the river and to it all other methods will be not more than adjuncts, auxiliaries. Writing for the New York World Herbert...
...Cardinal Hayes's plans to erect a home in the Bowery, Manhattan, for homeless men, The Commonweal, sophisticated Catholic weekly, last week reported: "There is no other part of the great metropolis which displays so much of poverty's backwash-tired women in frayed dresses of years ago, old men who capture a smoke from discarded stubs of cigars." The home will be "a place for those who cling miserably to vacant seats on park benches, who sit all day in branch libraries reading endless newspapers, and who, sometimes, when fortune favors them, get a chance to carry...