Word: slum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chief of this propaganda, Countess Bianca, 35, is slim, aggressive and ambitious. She manages to dress smartly in clothes designed by Italian dressmakers. She spends part of every year with her Spanish-born mother-in-law in Madrid. Longtime head of the fascio in the Garbatella slum district of Rome, she helps many a poor family out of her own purse...
...followed a national trend. As in three other States, it required automobiles to be equipped with safety glass in the near future. As in 33 other States, it took control of beer sales.* As in three other States, it sanctioned public housing corporations as R. F. C. borrowers for slum clearance. Also, following a nation-wide trend, it passed a new alimony code and the smallest appropriation bill in a decade...
...Debts, another with railroads. The third was to cover the Administration's public works program, if & when that program is fixed. Last week the Cabinet was divided into one faction that wanted to spend upwards of $2,000,000,000 per year on roads, harbors, bridges, slum clearance, etc. etc. and another faction that wanted to spend less than $1,000,000,000 for the same purposes. ¶ On June 3, 1898 Richmond Pearson Hobson won the nation's applause by sinking the Merrimac to bottle up the Spanish fleet in the harbor of Santiago de Cuba. Last...
Last week Reconstruction Finance Corp. announced its first loan for slum-eradication. To Hillside Housing Corp. in New York's Bronx went $3,957,000. Pending was a similar loan of $800,000 to a Brooklyn group. Since New York is so far the only State with laws and a commission to regulate rents, profits, capital structures, interest charges and methods of operation of housing corporations, it alone is eligible for R. F. C. housing help...
...slum elimination loans have yet been made...