Word: tenementation
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...such as the Income Tax case, and also took a prominent part in defending the new interstate commerce laws. In the Iron-Pipe Trust case, he obtained the first judicial decision condemning a manufacturing trust under the federal anti-trust law. Mr. Whitney also drew up the New York tenement house law of 1901 as counsel for the State Tenement House Committee. In addition to his legal practice, Mr. Whitney is lecturer on international law at the New York Law School...
...learn the English language but a large number of them, attracted by the spirit of the place, continue to come back for the religious teaching of the school. Through the Boston Children's Aid Society other men are meeting groups of children, usually in some room of a tenement house, for an hour or so each week--to read to them, play games and distribute the books from the little circulating libraries which the Society furnishes. In these, and a number of other ways, Harvard men are helping simply and unostentatiously in philanthropic work...
Seminary of Economics. The Anatomy of a Tenement Street. Mr. H. M. Kallen. University...
...Republic, situated in Freeport, New York, is a settlement of boys and girls from the tenement districts of the great cities--a settlement conducted as a miniature republic, with a congress, courts of justice, and law officers by which the citizens govern themselves. Farming and the keeping of stores and hotels are carried on by the citizens on the basis of a currency of the Republic which when the citizens leave is exchanged for usable articles of one kind or another. As an experiment in training the boys and girls of the poorer classes in practical citizenship, and in developing...
...Riis is well fitted to lecture on the social conditions of New York as he has spent over ten years as police reporter for the New York Sun. He has been very active in bringing about the small park system; and the improvements among the tenement houses and schools in New York are largely due to his efforts...