Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...smelly, run-down "back of the yards" district (subject of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle), whose packinghouse population of 65,000 is almost 95% Catholic. Fifteen months ago, with the bishop's blessing, friendly, chesty Jewish Sociologist Saul Alinsky set up a Back of the Yards Neighborhood Council. Aim: to reconcile the potentially conflicting interests of business, labor, politics and religion in a crowded, depressed industrial area. Typical Council results to date: C. I. O. leaders helping the Chamber of Commerce in its membership drive; 1,200 hot meals free each day for undernourished children; a new recreation...
Organized last month with Sociologist Alinsky's aid was a similar neighborhood council at Kansas City, Kans. Another is now being formed at South St. Paul, Minn. Each council will Support itself, will get advice and technical consultants from the Industrial Areas Foundation. Protestants, Jews and Catholics are on the I. A. F. board of directors...
...long war between U. S. business and the New Deal, one of the wordiest sectors has been in the neighborhood of SEC. Last month, in the truceful atmosphere engendered by Rearmament, this sector began to grow quiet. Last week, on one of Wall Street's sorest salients, there was Peace...
...northern front started crumbling, the time came when he had to abandon the Maginot Line to save at least some of these fortress troops ("shellfish"), at least some of their mountainous supplies of food and ammunition, before they were completely enveloped. If he could get them back to the neighborhood of Dijon they might help to hold a new defense line from the valley of the Loire through the north bastions of France's Massif Central...
...Washington's actions were hesitant, tentative, halfway. They had to be. The U. S. people, long used to comforting "Good Neighbor" talk, were not yet ready to accept the idea that the U. S. might have to police its neighborhood to the South...