Word: slumming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...importance of the situation when he said recently that "nothing is closer to the welfare of the people" and that "private enterprise has never provided necessary housing for the lowest income groups." The bill which he co-authored provides for a forty-year program of low-rent urban housing, slum clearance, rural housing and federal aid for private projects. In the next four years, five million new homes will be constructed under this program at a federal outlay of $150 million a year. Besides helping the veteran's problem, it will go some distance to rid the nation...
...Miriam Chapin, sister of Curtice Hitchcock, New York publisher, came across Bonheur in Montreal. When she had read Author Roy's story of life in St. Henri, a smoky slum section of Montreal, she mailed a copy to her brother. Reynal & Hitchcock agreed to publish it. They changed the title to The Tin Flute, and had the book translated into English. Then New York's Literary Guild, whose million members make it the largest book club in the world, read the manuscript. It announced that The Tin Flute will be its May selection, the first work...
...grandpa, Sam, who had made his surname a common noun in the U.S. language and had once been mayor. During his two years in office, Maury had been credited with reducing traffic deaths and crime by 50%, rebuilding the health department, getting $6 million from the Federal Government for slum clearance and $4 million for civic beautification, reorganizing the police and fire departments and keeping San Antonio (and himself) in the national spotlight...
...Aviv, "Red Devils" of the British 6th Airborne Division rounded up 20,000 slum-dwelling Yemenite Jews, and hunted for members of the "Black Squad" which had kidnaped and whipped a British Army major and three sergeants (in retaliation for the caning of a convicted Jewish terrorist in Jerusalem's jail...
Canadian table manners bothered her too: "I've never seen our slum children eating the way theirs do-stuffing food in their mouths with their fingers. Yet when I ate with my knife they criticized me." Furthermore, her Canadian relations never had herring for Sunday breakfast. Furthermore, Canadian girls "don't have complexions like our girls and they put too much rubbish on their faces...