Word: neighborhoods
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Finally, eight white and four Negro families got together and started distributing signs to their neighbors, stating: THIS HOUSE IS NOT FOR SALE. Attached to the sign was a letter: "We like this neighborhood . . . Constant pressure from real-estate brokers is annoying and we resent it ... We have found that some white families are still under the mistaken impression that a community or block must remain all white or 'go all colored' [and] that property values decline when colored families move in ... Values do not decline except during panic selling...
...signs distributed in the neighborhood were posted. But leaders of the sign project were undismayed, felt it was too early to assess the impact their idea. In the meantime, their experiment could stand by itself as a primer lesson in both democracy and economics...
...However, a few neighborhood gossips are whispering over their back fences that the wedding date has already been set. But those who know the least always talk the most. One would-be suitor* has made bold to announce that a chair is being reserved for us ... No doubt this suitor means well in thinking of that chair as a love seat. But this young lady realizes that for her it would become a 'hot seat' .. . virtually an electric chair...
About a month ago a small green love-bird departed from its cage in a Prescott Street apartment and set our to explore the neighborhood. With the anxiety of an expectant father, Roman Jakobson, Samuel Cross Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and owner of the bird, stayed up all night waiting for her return. The next morning she wandered in blissfully and Jakobson, with mild censure, returned her to the wire, webbed cage. Such concern is not rare in Jakobson. Those who know him say that he is a devoted man-attached to his studies, to his friends...
...bishop's 25th anniversary. The Jewish sociologist and the Irish playground director were the bishop's right & left hands in the late !30's when he set out to fight Communism among the tough, discontented unemployed of Chicago's stockyards. The Back of the Yards Neighborhood Council brought democracy and self-respect into an explosive situation. The packers, who at first did not like the unionization that went with it, learned to be grateful for the bishop's work...