Word: rent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chicago, the Woodlawn Organization, a belligerent, Alinsky-forged army of Negro slum dwellers, employed rent strikes and picketing to win concessions ranging from tenement repairs to honest scales. In California, 30 Alinsky-founded community projects, mainly for Mexican-Americans, have increased their influence; last week an Alinsky disciple was leading a bitter strike of grape pickers in the San Joaquin Valley for better wages. In Rochester, N.Y., Alinsky's predominantly Negro organization FIGHT (an apt acronym for Freedom, Integration, God, Honor, Today) has severely harassed the already established poverty agency. In Syracuse, N.Y., Alinsky's apprentices trucked mobs...
...chairs. Ethnic vivisection abounds nearly everywhere. The Somali peoples are split up among Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya and French Somaliland; the Bas-Congo tribe is found in three nations, the Sawaba tribe in four. The reverse can be true as well: Laos, Nigeria and the Sudan, among others, are continuously rent by warring tribes that are unnaturally confined inside the same country...
...John F. Kennedy Memorial Library complex may include a "mixed-use" area of low-rent stores and offices for student organizations...
...Negroes. After leaving New Deal Washington in 1944, he worked for the U.N. Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, taught at several colleges, ran a fellowship program for the lohn Hay Whitney Foundation, was picked in 1955 by New York's Democratic Governor Averell Harriman to be State Rent Commissioner-the first Negro to hold a cabinet post in state history. In December 1960, lohn Kennedy, whom he had advised on civil rights during the presidential campaign, named Weaver director of HHFA-at that time the highest federal post ever held by a Negro. Said Weaver then: "I want...
Weaver also revived the long-dormant idea of federal rent subsidies for the ailing and aged. That proposal narrowly passed the Congress last year, but the eligibility regulations were so carelessly written by the HHFA that "hardship" cases with as much as $25,000 in net assets could have qualified for rent help. Congress refused to appropriate funds for it, and many people thought that Weaver had thereby destroyed his chances of becoming HUD Secretary. Weaver now airily dismisses it all as "purely a printer's slip...