Word: tenementation
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Naples, though its slum alleys are still noisome and laundry festoons every tenement, no longer seems such a violent affront to its breathtaking setting. To the land of the Fra Angelicos and hand-painted Sicilian donkey carts has come the neon glare of modern living-billboards, Life Savers, Esso stations, Hopalong Cassidy, even a little TV. Venetian canals boast traffic lights, and only a lusty gondolier could raise his tenor above the gaseous snarl of motoscafi...
Died. Robert Ferdinand Wagner, 75, author of the New Deal's Wagner act, lifelong Democratic champion of labor; in New York City. A German immigrant boy, he struggled up from the slums of Manhattan's Yorkville (his father was a tenement janitor) to work his way through City College and New York Law School. As a Tammany candidate, he entered the state assembly in 1905, became a firm friend of Al Smith and Franklin Roosevelt, later served as state senator and state supreme court justice. Elected to the U.S. Senate in 1926, he became a powerful figure...
...Taeye and Abbé Eduard Froidure. It had all begun with the abbe's eloquent pamphlet on Brussels' slums, unnoticed by cabinet ministers but read by a shocked Baudouin, who determined to see for himself. A veteran slum worker, the abbe led Baudouin from one foul tenement to another...
Hearing a tuberculous man complain that he had to pay 40 francs (80?) a day on medicine, the King pocketed the empty medicine bottle, apparently intending to insure the man a supply. In a 14-family one-toilet tenement, the King stooped under a clothesline to talk to the inhabitants...
Christ Child House is a battered, yellow building near Central Square. It rests quietly on a side street in one of Cambridge's better tenement sections--quietly, that is, until the kids come swarming in each day at the end of school. Then the building becomes alive; then the work begins for Director Bill Byrnes and the half dozen or so Phillips Brooks House workers assigned to the House...