Word: slums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Examples of Taft-at-work are his measures for federal housing (up to $200,000,000 annually for slum clearance), for federal medical and dental aid (he is dead set against socialized medicine), for federal aid in education. They represent a conservative's compromises-the substitute measures which a nimble and hard-willed legislator has wrung out of his opponents. Educators and housing experts who thought they were going to deal with a reactionary fogy when he consulted them about his bills found themselves agreeing with him on most major points, marveling at his knowledge of the facts...
...Chicago's tough South Side, Chuck Luckman sold soap to seven of the first eight stores he visited. (Later he quipped: "If I couldn't sell soap in a dirty slum area I might as well quit.") He went on to chalk up an office sales record...
...shilling to spend on a ticket to the Abbey Theater, O'Casey swung a pick & shovel as a day laborer, worked at nights for the cause of the Gaelic League, the Irish Republican Brotherhood, the Citizen Army. He lived with his mother in a few flea-ridden Dublin slum rooms. When bis sister died, there was no money in the house to bury her. When his brother-in-law went crazy, the clutchers came in a plain, black cab and carried him off to the home for loony paupers at Grangegor-man. He himself had been born with weak...
...Malthusian justice in the millions of famine deaths checking excessive growth of population. It is true that Indians are multiplying too fast. But it is sheer perversity to expect people who cannot afford an elementary education and a handful of rice to buy contraceptives. Everywhere in the world slums breed human beings too fast, and India is one vast slum. The remedy is not to lecture the Indians . . . but to abolish the slummy conditions of life...
...Sent to the House the Wagner-Ellen-der-Taft long-range housing bill providing 1) Government loans to small-income builders, 2) slum clearance, 3) a goal of 15,000,000 new dwellings in the next ten years...