Word: tenementation
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...tenement-walled, children-cluttered street of Manhattan's lower East Side works Professor Park. For 38 years he has been a great Name in immunology. His New York Board of Health vaccines and serums are esteemed throughout the world. New York University medical students have learned bacteriology & hygiene from him since 1897. But somehow the man's personality has escaped the record...
...prints ... of Borzage version of A Farewell to Arms but do not send her." Central Park (First National). Written by a New York Sun theatrical reporter, Ward Morehouse. this picture exhibits Manhattan's largest pleasance. not as an outdoor nursery for perambulated babies, a sleeping porch for the tenement district and a cyuosure for sightseers, but as a battlefield of crime and bestiality, a sink of dissipation. The picture starts with a theft of hotdogs by two hungry, penniless young lovers. A pair of racketeers pretending to be detectives whisk the girl (Joan Blondell) away to the Central Park...
...Manhattan, to comfort his only son, widowed Patrolman Joseph McReddy bought a canary to replace the son's pet Chip which had died while the son was at school. The new bird escaped out the window. Father McReddy rushed to the tenement house roof, fell off the fire escape. When son McReddy came home he found his father dead as well as his canary...
...Administration began to get actively exercised about the Depression, New York's Senator Robert F. Wagner introduced, among other features of his proposed Unemployment relief legislation, the idea of lending Federal funds for city slum clearance. Robert Ferdinand Wagner, born in rural Germany but raised in a teeming tenement district of Manhattan, well knows the housing conditions that exist and are for the most part steadfastly ignored, even denied, in every city in the land. Alfred Emanuel Smith and other political friends of Senator Wagner with city backgrounds lent him their support in pushing the idea of slum clearance...
...reduce rentals. Since 1927 eleven housing projects around New York City have been completed under the Board, representing 1,918 apartments costing $10,161.074. Four of them were co-operative undertakings by the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. Ten of them are making money. All of them have supplied tenement dwellers with decent housing. But New York's slums still teem...