Word: slumming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Radio). Crossing its fingers behind a burlesqued title, this film is a clumsy attempt to satirize the cinema theme of regeneration. But Director Mark Sandrich and several up-&-coming young actors have an attractively lighthearted time with the heavyhanded script. As Aggie the regenerator Wynne Gibson is a slum beauty weary of the hands of men but wearily willing to go to bed for a night's lodging. Beetle-browed young William Gargan plays Red Branahan, the alley tough who could make a dishonest living if he could ever bring himself to run away from the police. After...
...apartment houses in The Bronx, N. Y.; $2,965,000 to Hallets Cove Garden Homes, Inc. for 31 apartment houses on the Queens bank of New York's East River; $4,460,000 to the Community Plan Committee of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce to replace 750 slum buildings with 200 new houses; $168,000 to a Raleigh corporation to build apartments convenient to the faculty and students of North Carolina State College. In all cases the new apartments were to rent for $11 per room per month or less...
...Slum Clearers...
...reminded to inquire why the dot and comma hounds in your editorial department overlooked TIME'S negligence in reporting the National Conference on Slum Clearance which was held in Cleveland, Thursday and Friday, July 6 and 7-the first convention of its kind- and which brought together 420 of the nation's foremost housing experts, city planners, and social workers, from 34 key cities of the country. Out here in the provinces, we thought this quite a TIME-worthy event, and our citizen committee which arranged the conference under the auspices of the city government was disappointed...
...Slum Clearance conference was indeed TIME-worthy. To it went Editor Harold Sinley Buttenheim of American City Magazine; President Appleton P. Clark Jr. of Washington Sanitary Housing Corp.; New York's Ralph Borsodi, economist who grinds his own flour at home and whose plan for making the unemployed produce their own necessities was adopted last autumn in Dayton; Howard Whipple Green, Cleveland statistician, author of exhaustive studies of Cleveland's population and buying power; Eugene Henry Klaber of American Institute of Architects; Cincinnati's able Lawyer Alfred Bettman, vice president of the National Conference on City Planning...