Word: slumming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Anti-Communism last week won a victory in a place where it least deserved one, a suppurating slum called the Gorbals that sprawls southward from the rat-ridden wharves of Scotland's Glasgow. Most of the Gorbals' massive grey granite houses were built a century ago when thousands of poor laborers began to arrive in Glasgow. Now 85,000 human beings cram its 252 acres. In many of its tenements 30 people share a single doorless toilet, and the odor of garbage hangs heavy in the stairwells. There is an undertaker on every other block. A Gorbals girl...
This is the first time O'Brien has run for a major political position, although he has recently served on many local citizen's committees. His campaign will emphasize restored price control, long-range housing and slum clearance programs and repeal of the Taft-Hartley and Selective Service Acts. He has declared himself in favor of a roll-back of price levels, a dollar-an-hour minimum wage, anti-Jim Crow legislation, and a U. N.-without-political-strings...
Victims, Dr. von Hentig believes, are born or shaped by society much as criminals are. In many cases, they are governed by the same factors. Some types of criminals are attracted to slum areas; so are their victims. Feeblemindedness, common among some types of criminals, is also common among their victims...
While recessed House members gathered to watch the battle, McCarthy argued with rising temper: "I have been informed that the House leaders will not take public housing or slum clearance." That was all mild-mannered Charles Tobey needed. Pointing to the visitors, he shouted: "Who is this House leadership . . . this triumvirate in the House which has the power to say 'They shall not pass...
...S.2790, a bill "to amend the Servicemen's Readjustment Act." Said Truman scathingly: "For reasons which are quite understandable, the Republican leaders of the House of Representatives insisted upon calling this measure a 'housing bill.' " This "hasty patchwork," he said, failed to provide farm housing, slum clearance, financial aid for large-scale home construction, prefabricated housing, or low-cost rental housing. Cried Harry Truman: "In this case, as in many others, the 80th Congress has failed miserably...