Word: localism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Leaders of the local defense leagues are spunky housewives, energetic Communists, clergymen with social consciences like Father Groser. Fortnight ago on the 100th anniversary of the great working class Chartist Convention that scared early Victorians silly by demanding such reforms as universal suffrage and annual Parliaments, representatives of the 200,000 members of the booming Federation of Tenants' and Residents' Associations met for its first national convention. Birmingham, scene of a recent victorious strike by 46,000 families living in a municipal tenements, was the convention city...
...Straus knew this because for nearly two years he has run United States Housing Authority, with $800,000,000 to lend to local authorities for slum clearance, more millions to grant in outright rent subsidy gifts. On July 4 he celebrated with the formal opening of USHA's first four completed projects: "Rosewood" in Austin, Tex.; "Brentwood Park" in Jacksonville, Fla.; "Lakeview" in Buffalo, N. Y.; "Red Hook" in Brooklyn. He had 41 other projects under way. By year's end he hoped to have 200 going. With his $800,000,000 authority he would have provided...
...back, worked in British Columbia logging camps (where friendly lumberjacks organized a bodyguard to protect him from those who resented his slickness), prospected in the Mojave Desert (where all he got was sunstroke), shoveled coal in Utah and Pennsylvania, bummed. Once, arriving in Eugene, Ore. with 5?, he talked local businessmen into backing a sporting goods store, gave golf lessons to drum up trade. He played in the low 120s. In 1928 he landed a job in a San Francisco bond house; by 1930 he was Anglo California National Bank's resident manager in New York...
...morning Chronicle still has the smallest circulation in San Francisco (104,893), carries the largest staff (wags say that at fires there are more Chronicle reporters than firemen). Hearst's Examiner still dominates the morning field with a circulation of 163,003 built on the best local coverage in town. Of the afternoon papers, Hearst's Call-Bulletin is a shrill screamer, the Scripps-Howard News a tired liberal. If Paul Smith can put over the city's only home-owned newspaper as a liberal, world-conscious sheet, he may make...
...During the prosperous Republican Twenties, while Washington boasted balanced budgets, State and local governments were running up debt at the rate of nearly $1,000,000,000 yearly; since 1932, however, State and local governments instead of providing an outlet for savings have been piling them up. Carrie's argument : the net Federal investment now has to be at least $1,000,000,000 to provide equivalent purchasing power...