Word: slumming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Juvenile Court (Columbia). Further data on slum children, with Paul Kelly as benefactor-in-chief to a gang of young roughnecks led by Frankie Darro...
...opening 36 pages consist of slum vignettes, gangrenous clinical talk and last-ditch confessions derived from Celine's medical practice in a Paris charity clinic. (He still clings to this job, which pays about $60 a month, although he has salted away some $25,000 in royalties.) These pages give readers a sickening jolt. But Celine's purpose is apparently to show that neither Ferdinand (his autobiographical main character) nor the world has improved since his boyhood...
...giving them an option to repurchase at any time at the same price. The Authority will set up on the land four-room prefabricated houses which are to cost $900 apiece and rent to Fort Wayne's poor at $2.50 a week. In return for relieving slum conditions, the State makes F. W. H. A. land and buildings taxfree. WPA labor will put the houses together, clear the land of present slum buildings, if any. When any owner buys his land back, WPAsters will pull down the collapsible houses and put them up on another $1 plot...
When he was 13, Benjamin Balish had saved $5,300 from peddling spoiled pineapples to slum dwellers on Manhattan's lower East Side. Then he turned to onions, at one time was making about $175,000 a year as active partner in Dingfelder & Balish, Manhattan onion and potato jobbing firm. Claiming he was U. S. "Onion King," Ben Balish last year bought out his partner, quiet, wealthy Carl I. Dingfelder (TIME, Oct. 18). Last fortnight, the 42-year-old Onion King declared himself broke, asked permission to reorganize Benjamin Balish Co., Inc. under Section 776 of the Federal Bankruptcy...
...coincidental cracks through which a cat could be thrown with ease. Laid against a background of Brighton Beach, London's Coney Island, the story has for central character a hollow-chested, downy-cheeked 17-year-old called Pinkie, a gangster ascetic who turns killer as a release from slum-made inhibitions: disgust with sex originating with his father and mother, religious neurosis originating with his early ambition to be a priest...