Word: homelessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trip to Europe to help forget his domestic troubles, Manhattan's bantam Showman Billy Rose, 52, confided to a London reporter that he would like to adopt two homeless European children. He explained: "When I married Miss Fanny Brice, she was one of America's great comediennes and very busy. When I married Miss Eleanor Holm, I was very busy." Why did he want children now? Was he lonely? Not exactly, said Rose. "At my age, most people are lucky if they have enough friends to go round one card table. Me, I've got enough...
...filled with flying tin roofs; then the pelting rains crumbled Albertynsville's mud huts into a slough of grey ooze that flowed like lava, choked with sticks of furniture, rusty pots & pans, and here & there a corpse. The toll was: 20 killed, 400 injured, 4,000 homeless...
...Minutes after the storm, Johannesburg's Bronx-born mayor, 45-year-old Hymie Miller, sounded an appeal for help. Ambulances and double-decker city buses raced down the veld roads carrying white doctors and nurses; enough shoes, clothing and blankets poured in to supply twice the number of homeless. When Mayor Miller appealed for emergency blood donors, thousands of Johannesburgers streamed out of movie theaters and cocktail lounges to line up, some all night long, at the blood-bank centers...
...Pits. Mayor Miller agreed. He called an emergency meeting of his city council at 8 a.m., launched an Albertynsville relief fund that topped $45,000. From Prime Minister Daniel Malan's Nationalist cabinet came an offer of temporary shelter for the homeless in the big, unused army barracks at Lenz, three miles west of Albettynsville. At first, "Chief" Eric Kumalo, 48, the black-bearded Negro racketeer whose goon squads charge Albertynsville's shanty dwellers 5 shillings a month "protection" money, threatened to beat up any Negro family moving to Lenz. But not for long: protected by Mayor Miller...
...announcing these new plans, Greenebaum also revealed that the hitherto homeless H.M.C. has found a permanent office in the Music Building from which the new information will be disseminated...