Word: slumming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fortnight ago, Bob Wagner's veteran slum-clearing measure came to bat for the third time. Backed by such assorted powers as President Roosevelt, the conservative New York Times and the tory New York Herald Tribune, the bill looked like a sure thing. Sponsor Wagner crowed: "There is practical unanimity throughout the country in favor of the measure. . . . There was practically no opposition to the bill in the hearings before the committee...
...Housing Bill, 1937 edition, was modeled closely after a popular British slum-clearing act. It provided for $700,000,000 to be loaned by the Federal Government to a U. S. Housing Authority for pulling down noxious tenement houses and erecting low-rental dwellings in their stead. The Authority would then reimburse the Treasury by selling their own 60-year bonds (guaranteed by the U. S.) to the public. If income from the necessarily low rents fell short of paying off bonds & interest, the Government would chip in up to $20,000,000 a year-an outright subsidy...
...infant Princess Victoria. The real gunmen are two Cumberland spies, one of them Christopher's father. Christopher runs away, is found by a peasant who sells him to a cotton manufacturer. Enroute to North England in the company of workhouse children, he falls in love with a slum girl, is involved in a murder and sentenced to be hanged. The good uncle who saves him is an old lover of his dead mother. Viscount Setoun, who sends him to school, gives him an Austrian estate. Christopher's fairy godmother teams up with the Viscount. When an aggressive American...
While a German guardsman, Christopher learns for the first time that his mother was a princess. After that he cannot turn around without hearing about the dirty Hanovers. An actress who takes a fancy to him turns out to be his first love, the slum girl. But when he wants to marry her, she turns him away with a story about her past that is almost as bad as the ones he has been hearing about his Hanoverian relatives. Breaking point of his German adventures is when he sees how an old baron avenges the seduction of his niece...
...Author-In Palestine during the World War, Vaughan Wilkins, son of a slum parson, lived in a dugout reputed to have been shared by Samson & Delilah. And So-Victoria, his first novel, was written in his father-in-law's historic house in Wales, in a London house once occupied by Samuel Pepys, on a freighter during a bad storm, and in Goliad, Texas, where relatives live. At 23 the editor of a London tabloid, he retired from newspaper work after blowing up as assistant editor of Lord Beaverbrook's London Daily Express. A great-grandfather designed London...