Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...determined to make over the city government as the President was making over the Federal Government. When Mayor LaGuardia demanded a bill from the New-York Legislature giving him drastic powers, Governor Herbert Henry Lehman called him promptly to order. The Mayor went to Albany and an amicable settlement was reached. The Mayor agreed not to ask dictatorial powers for himself but to have the necessary authority for revamping the city government and balancing the city budget given to the Board of Estimate (which he controls). Thereupon the Governor about-faced, agreed to support the Mayor's measure (TIME...
...elder brother (now a doctor in Tacoma), he worked his way through Grinnell College. He was also a member of the state tennis team. He wanted to publish a newspaper in Montana, but instead he took his first job as a Director of Boys Work with Christodora House, a "settlement" institution on Avenue B, Manhattan. From that time on he held nothing but jobs as a social worker or relief giver?with the Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor, largest private charity in Manhattan, with the Reform Administration of Mayor John Purroy Mitchel, with the Board of Child...
...Harry Hopkins is no typical settlement worker. He plays bridge and poker, takes a drink now and then, belongs to no church. He married a social worker, had three sons, was divorced and married again. A psychoanalyst told him he was repressed because he had been the middle child in his family, had had little attention. He makes friends easily not only with spinster social workers whom he kids along but with politicians, artists and writers...
...City College has in Nat Holman a remarkable coach. In 15 years Holman's teams at C. C. N. Y. have won 173 games, lost 41. Born and bred on Manhattan's East Side, Nat Holman learned basketball where many another crack Jewish player started, in a settlement-house gymnasium. While studying at C. C. N. Y. he did not play on the college team, but turned professional, signed in 1920 with a team called "The Original Celtics." Holman played with the Celtics for eight years, during which they won an average of 120 out of 130 games...
...readers to use the same tactics in "the next round with the octopus." Editor Baker is campaigning for funds to defray legal expenses for 300 other water-rate strikers. Invited by the water company, after two denials, to attend a rate conference, Editor Baker refused to accept the settlement offer, has been barred from all future meetings. Meanwhile Editor Baker holds proxies for almost all the Transcript's 1,713 readers...