Word: slumming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...security to cover 20 million U.S. farm workers, houseworkers, etc., not covered now; an increase of 50% in all social security benefit payments; a national health program to insure medical aid for everyone; $300 million in federal aid to raise the incomes of schoolteachers and provide more schools; a slum-clearance program; a low-rent housing program to put up 15 million units in the next ten years...
...Here in this huge, dark, steaming slum, hundreds of thousands of Negroes are herded together like cattle, most of them with nothing to eat and nothing to do. All the senses and imagination and sensibilities and emotions and sorrows and desires and hopes and ideas of a race with vivid feelings and deep emotional reactions are forced in upon themselves, bound inward by an iron ring of frustration: the prejudice that hems them in with its four insurmountable walls. In this huge cauldron, inestimable natural gifts, wisdom, love, music, science, poetry are stamped down and left to boil with...
...crowded together like sardines in the rooms of tenements full of vice, where evil takes place hourly and inescapably before their eyes . . . and this by way of an accusation of the polite and expensive and furtive sensualities and lusts of the rich whose sins have bred this abominable slum. The effect resembles and even magnifies the cause, and Harlem is the portrait of those through whose fault such things come into existence...
...heart's dark slum...
Saltonstall will campaign on his four-year Senate record, which followed that of most internationalist Republicans in the Senate. He voted against last December's bill to authorize Presidential price controls; and against slum clearance and public housing provisions of the housing bill. He voted for the Taft Hartley law and to override the President's vote of the tax reduction bill. He supported an amendment to the rent control bill which authorized a voluntary 15 per cent increase...