Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...program laid specific blame for young lawbreakers on parents, schools, courts and jails, made a specific recommendation: neighborhood councils, to whip the community into action. By week's end, thousands of enthusiastic letters had flooded in. CBS had demonstrated that when radio has something to say about an important problem-and says it intelligently-people will listen...
...Cabinet, the presidents of the National Assembly and Supreme Court, waited more than an hour before deciding that the U.N. Secretary-General had stood them up. Lie, reportedly annoyed when his official chauffeur got lost or mislaid, proceeded to Cuba. Panamanians were most piqued because they had ransacked the neighborhood for a Norwegian flag for the occasion...
...special treat for neighborhood children who still thrill at the sight of a red cap and a white beard at Christmas times, PBH superintendent "Jock" Cockburn donned the gay apparel for 19 youngsters, who watched a magician while lapping up holiday refreshments...
Social Service Committee members have been trying psychological techniques learned in college courses on settlement house children of the neighborhood...
...from the Office. Young does his work as far from Wall Street as possible. With a personal fortune estimated to be in the neighborhood of $10 million (he draws only $20,000 a year as board chairman of Alleghany, another $7,500 as board chairman of C. & O.), he lives most of the year at Newport, in a 40-room Tudor-style house, "Fairholme," where a picture of Napoleon by David hangs in his room. From there, he usually goes to New York each Monday night, goes back each Thursday night. As befits a railroad baron, he always travels...