Word: slumming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Carrying the Freight. The President cited school construction, slum clearance, disaster relief and traffic safety as areas where he had found it necessary to urge federal action because of "inaction or inadequate action" by the several states. His recommended remedy: a major federal-state "task force for action" to reallocate the functions and revenues of the two governmental levels. Said he: "The elimination of federal overhead-stopping, in other words, the 'freight charges' on money being hauled from the states to Washington and back (a bill, I remind you, that is always collected in full)-would save...
...unaffiliated with any faith.) Negro attendance at the Garden is sparse; the lack of Negroes on Graham's headquarters staff (one was hired last week) and the absence of what some Negro leaders call "social content" in Graham's sermons are cited as the chief reasons. Slum districts are likewise unrepresented. Explained one Henry Street pastor: "The crusade format would not touch our people...
...pride in something more than its elm trees, Yankee traditions and Yale University. Firmly scuttling nostalgia ("Our greatness lies in the future"), Lee has put New Haven foremost among New England cities in striking at the illnesses that plague all U.S. municipalities: the exodus to the suburbs, slum growth, downtown decline...
...Replacement of 9,500 other slum units with federal housing projects, rejuvenation of 15,000 more by a coordinated municipal program in which the city persuaded slum landlords to make repairs, took legal action when persuasion failed...
...kind of sentimental duty to the past. By the time the upstart Mackays had become aristocratic, she herself outraged her Roman Catholic family in 1926 by marrying Songwriter Irving Berlin, son of Russian Jewish immigrants. She notes with wonder that her grandmother was born in an East Side slum only a few blocks away from where, 50 years later, Irving Berlin spent his childhood. With just such a sense of place she moves competently from the mining disasters in the Comstock to the horrors of fire that time and again leveled the ramshackle towns of the West. In contrast there...