Word: slumming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...works alphabetically within each class of Senators, Clark will have third choice of committee assignment among freshman Democrats, following John Carroll (Colo.) and Frank Church (Ida.). He said that perhaps he would receive an appointment to the Banking and Currency Committee, where he would specialize in urban re-development, slum clearance, and housing. He expressed doubt that he would be placed on the Judiciary Committee, because of his forthright civil rights position...
...Looking for Mr. Green, a welfare investigator ranges endlessly through a Chicago slum trying to give a relief check to a crippled Negro. In The Gonzaga Manuscripts, a dilettante fruitlessly combs Spain trying to buy the lost manuscripts of a dead poet. The stories suffer particularly from the fact that the leading characters are usually the dullest people in them. The reader of Seize the Day could do with less of regressive Tommy Wilhelm and more about rascally Dr. Tamkin, whose compelling eye and incessant tongue carry the story bracingly forward whenever he is onstage...
...shoulders, he walks with the stiff gait of a Bavarian peasant. His eyes are small and blue, and his head is square and massive, with thick, dark blond hair. "He has the manners of the Munich Tal," says Free Democrat Leader Thomas Dehler (the Tal is Munich's slum district). But inside Franz Josef Strauss's square head is a fast-thinking brain gifted with a photographic memory. His bachelor apartment near Bonn, his office and his automobile are jampacked with books, which he reads voraciously and from which he can often quote whole pages of text...
...City of New York is by no means a limited experience. That Wagner cut crime by 21 percent in New York City is not a recommendation for the Armed Services Committee, but Wagner proved himself equally adept in modernizing the city government, improving education and hospital facilities, and directing slum clearance. He has shown a Roosevelt-like ability to pick excellent advisers and to use advice effectively...
...same while covering his committments to the Associated Industries back in Swampscott for Swansea. But whatever their real beliefs, both Furcolo and Whittier must aim their pitches at the bulk of Massachusetts' voters, the second generation Americans who are just emerging from bondage in an urban slum...