Word: tenementation
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...cotton mills, clothing factories suck in more girls and boys than any other U. S. industry. Most of them are dark. fetid "sweatshops" where youngsters trim and stitch and sew on buttons at starvation wages. But because so much of this cheap dress & shirt work is done in tenement homes, no reliable figures are available of children employed or wages paid. In a Brooklyn factory lately investigators found 5-year-old girls making 6f an hour ($2.78 per week) threading and sponging pants. In Pennsylvania last May Mrs. Gifford Pinchot, wife of the Governor, took to the picket line...
...found that Mr. Ridley had owned extensive property uptown as well as many an East Side tenement. In his bank was over $1,000,000 in cash. His will left $812,000 to relatives who had not seen him for years. A bequest of $200,000 was left Weinstein provided the latter survived him. Police medical examiners were hard put to tell which victim had predeceased the other. Since neither body was robbed, it was supposed that some obscure revenge had motivated the crime. A bootlegger's hideout, discovered deep in the same old building, darkened the mystery further...
...soft but unavailing eyes at him. Leon was heart-whole till, one night at a Party meeting, he met the luscious Helen. Helen thought him cute, and encouraged him, but not seriously: she was living with a Mexican. Leon, blissfully ignorant, worshiped her from afar. In Jason's tenement lived one Hank Austin & family. Hank was a husky, ivory-headed warehouse worker; he made good wages till he was laid off. Then he sat around Union Square waiting for his money to run out. In the next apartment house Mr. Boardman, respectable widower, lived in increasingly uncomfortable sin with...
...Communist rally Leon was there, whooping it up for the Party: but it was unemployed Hank Austin, no Communist, who got beaten up, his spine paralyzed under the hoofs of the mounted police. Jason's carelessly flung cigaret set the tenement afire; when Leon clashed in to warn Helen he found her and her Mexican naked as the truth. Mr. Boardman, who had rented a top-floor room that day to watch his cuckolding, became an unidentified corpse. The demented printer in his basement wrote that Rome was burning. Next morning Mother Volga and Mr. Feibelman raced to their...
...Dunster House which appears in today's CRIMSON is a thorough and adequate description of the House as it stands now in its third year. The fact that the House has gradually become an independent unit is due not merely to long stretches of windy side-walks and tenement house barriers, but also to a quite pardonable feeling of self-satisfaction on the part of the residents at their "splendid isolation." As a result undergraduates as a body have not felt it so strongly their duty to participate in all the inter-House sports as have the members of other...