Word: slumming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only on one big segment of government spending did the Chancellor's ax fall heavily. While the Labor benches resounded to cries of "Resign! Resign!", he slashed housing subsidies, except for slum clearances, and shelved the government's plans to build new offices for the British embassy in Washington (saving...
...Slum clearance in St. Louis, a Senate investigation of religious freedom, a hassle in Princeton, N.J. over Planned Parenthood and the Community Chest-all such civil affairs may become bitter emotional issues between Protestant and Catholic Christians. "Catholic claustrophobia and Protestant paranoia-these are the matched complexes that tear up American Christendom. What bothers most at this Reformation anniversary, though, is the amount of Protestantism that thinks itself best and most vigorously expressed in terms of that suspicion and resentment...
...Cambridge. But the 50-word statements collected by the League offer little help, for most candidates say only that they are for good and against evil. A glance at the actual voting record, however, gives a clearer picture: the four CCA Councillors voted solidly for a definite program of slum clearance, while Edward J. Sullivan and John D. Lynch, two "independents" who are running for re-election, opposed the project...
...neighborhood has deteriorated into a slum over the past decade, Walter F. Donlan '56, Phillips Brooks House supervisor of the project, said, and from all indications will soon see an outbreak of juvenile delinquency...
...Nehru's weapons is a constitutional amendment passed last spring. It empowered the government to seize needed agricultural and slum property without paying full compensation, for, otherwise, as Nehru saw it, "the haves will remain haves and the have-nots will remain havenots." Parliament gave him more ammunition last month by cracking down on the managing agency system, that dates from the English East India Co.'s practice of handling ventures for absentee owners. Today, 22 of the largest managing agencies control 23% of India's industrial assets. The new law entitles the government...