Word: slum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...deed, the Evening Post's Cartoonist Sebastian Robles drew a caricature of grinning Mayor LaGuardia which, when inverted, reveals the prognathous face of ex-Mayor O'Brien. In taking charge of the nation's greatest city, Mayor LaGuardia promised a mighty program of reforms ranging from slum eradication to making Staten Island a free port...
Real protagonist of the story is the capitalist system. Its "hero" victim, Karl, bandy-legged legitimized bastard of a Viennese trolley conductor and a servant girl, grows up in his city slum to the slow realization that his father is a drunkard, his mother a drudge, and he himself doomed to serfdom unless he can somehow get himself into the white-collar class. He is almost there when the War swallows him. Vomited out after the armistice as an unemployed veteran, complete with scars and medals, he starves, emigrates to Sweden, goes home to more starvation. Down the long scale...
Only yesterday, preceding his resignation, Sprague advocated a housing and slum-clearance program which he said he had discussed with President Roosevelt
Dark, filthy, insanitary city stink-holes were one of President Hoover's pet aversions. During his administration the R. F. C. voted $1,500,000,000 for loans to 'limited-dividend housing corporations for the building of light, airy modern apartments. Slum clearance is also dear to the heart of President Roosevelt. When he set up the Public Works Administration under Secretary Ickes, a part of its funds was to be used for city housing. To date $46,219,958 has been allotted for that purpose. But bankers with delinquent mortgages and landlords with vacant property have doggedly...
Coincident with the slum-clearance plan but not actually related to it are the "subsistence farms" for which the Interior Department has a $25,000,000 appropriation. The purpose of this project is to move families from city slums to small tracts of land where they can live cheaply and comfortably, raise chickens and vegetables. The first locality selected was Morgantown, W. Va., the second Dayton. Dayton had already evolved a similar scheme to relieve its pressing unemploy ment problem, had set up social agencies to teach destitute families to bake bread, can fruit, repair shoes, make furniture...