Word: slumming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Says the preface to Blueprint for Health, with a nod to rundown slum areas: "This community has in it the seeds of contagion, contamination, human misery and criminal neglect . . . But it also has in it sources of power great enough to protect us all against the consequences of mass-living...
...Sanctuary. But Rhee had other schemes. He ordered his 52 followers in the 183-member Assembly to boycott sessions to prevent a quorum. His police grabbed eleven anti-Rhee Assemblymen, locked them up in a dilapidated house in a Pusan slum, and tried, unsuccessfully, to get 15 more anti-Rhee parliamentarians to come in for "questioning." Scared opposition Assemblymen huddled in the sanctuary of their barnlike meeting hall, sleeping on bedrolls and benches...
Unscientific Method. This is exactly what the late Edgar James Helms had in mind when he founded Goodwill Industries. In 1902 Helms, a young Methodist preacher, sent out an appeal to Bostonians for cast-off clothing to give to the poor in the South End slums. He called his drive an "enterprise of the heart," but he combined the heart with a great deal of energy and common sense. As director of the Unitarian Church's famous multidenominational Henry Morgan Mission, Preacher Helms paid unemployed workers to clean and repair the clothes, then sold them at low prices...
Last week, when the day came, a steady stream of well-armed cops, backed by armored cars, moved into the teeming native slums of South Africa's main cities. Army reinforcements stood ready at strategic points. But no trouble came. In Johannesburg's "Freedom Square," a dilapidated vacant lot in the Indian-African slum of Fordsburg, only 4,000 blacks showed up, instead of the 100,000 predicted. In & out among them flitted white Communist agitators, jangling collection boxes and spouting pat phrases about "U.S. imperialism in Asia." Sturdy Dr. Moroka (who is not a Communist) climbed...
...share in this affair Scott was sent to prison for three months. The attackers were not arrested. His bishop, torn between embarrassment and admiration, released him from his slum parish in Johannesburg, but left him license to preach...