Word: slum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Asleep in a slum...
...four billion Work Relief dollars in their pockets, Frank Walker, Harold Ickes and Harry Hopkins went to the White House one afternoon last week, spent two hours parceling out the first billion. Half of it went for highways, roads, streets, grade crossings. PWA got a quarter billion dollars for slum clearance, low-cost housing. Rural Resettlement Administrator Rexford Guy Tugwell received a round $100,000,000 to spend as he pleased. Another $100,000,000 went to Army engineers, half of it for dredging the Mississippi and Missouri rivers. Two genuinely newsworthy prizes were drawn from the grab...
...succeed him Governor Lehman appointed Louis Heaton Pink, who has been directing the Insurance Department emergency mortgage rehabilitation bureau. A Brooklyn lawyer with a conspicuous record of civic service, Mr. Pink is a specialist in slum-clearance and low-cost housing, once served on the State Housing Board, now sits on New York City's Municipal Housing Authority...
...landlordship to the Negros is one of circumstance rather than design, for Harlem's color once was predominantly Jewish-white, and when the better Negro sought a better-than-slum home only the compassionate Jew would suffer him to rent such a domicile. The influx of all other Negroes soon forced the Jew out but into the housing business...
...year U. S. District Judge Charles Irvin Dawson of Louisville upheld the Frazier-Lemke Farm Mortgage Act "with extreme reluctance." Then this thin-lipped Southern Republican began to bear down on the New Deal in earnest. In quick succession he declared illegal the condemnation of private property for PWA slum clearance, the NRA Bituminous Coal Code (TIME, March 11). Last week Judge Dawson struck his third blow by ruling AAA's Kerr-Smith Tobacco Control Act unconstitutional...