Word: slum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last paying attention to some of the critics of its Latin America policy. Last week it agreed for the first time to grant Latin American nations long-term loans, repayable in soft currencies, for such social-and visible-ends as slum clearance, schools, hospitals, and land reform. The Administration will ask Congress when it reconvenes in August for $500 million or more for loans to better the lot of the hemisphere's peoples. The policy reverses the Eisenhower Administration's previous insistence on hard-currency loans, to be spent mostly on U.S.-made equipment for economic enterprises...
...novel's central character is Ike-o Hartwell, who was born in a toilet in a Pittsburgh slum called Sobaski's Stair way. He grew up amid the neon glow of pawn shops and poolrooms on Mechanic Avenue, where the purple nights resounded to the clank and clatter of the street cars, the prancing polkas from Souick's Social Hall, the plaintive hymns filtering from store-front churches. His huge, im mobile mother and most of his neighbors were Poles, and there were street fights with encroaching waves of Jews, Italians, Syrians and Negroes. Young...
When those professional men who should be our national leaders because of education and training, and I refer specifically to doctors and lawyers, will prostitute themselves for money or political gain, and men of wealth do in truth own whole districts of slum dwellings, what have the people to follow? It is consoling to know that we have educators who think. But what are they doing about...
Friends to the Fore. The case, as it unfolded in court, seemed remarkably simple. By Jack's own admission to the county grand jury, he had allowed longtime Crony Sidney J. Ungar, a real estate operator seeking city approval of a $30 million slum-clearance scheme, to pick up a $4,400 tab for the 1958 remodeling of Jack's Harlem apartment. Jack also admitted that he had lied to the district attorney by saying that his wife paid for the job out of her $100-a-week "table money"-before finally settling on the explanation that Ungar...
...acknowledge that the loss of faith in our world, our destiny, our religion, is the cloudy and dark climate which most of America finds itself living in today. The individual may do what he likes to further his own gain. The man of wealth owns a whole district of slum dwellings, and feels no pangs of conscience for the hunger, squalor and disease he encourages. The aggressive salesman makes outrageous claims for the product he wishes to sell. The novelist writes a scrofulous book in hope of being on the bestseller list, and television corrupts the public taste ... I seem...