Word: tenementation
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...rule the periodic attempts at reform have taken the shape of tenement laws which aimed to force the owner to modernize his premises. This half-hearted legislation has seldom been either enforced or obeyed, and any really permanent improvement of housings under private management is rendered impracticable by the financial incapacity of the owners. Obviously the landlord, by very definition, can effect no change for which his impecunious tenants are unable to compensate him. The vast area of tottering, overcrowded structures common to all American cities cannot be patched or braced; it must eventually be scrapped in toto and replaced...
James M. Estabrook '34, head of the Student Social Workers Committee of the Phillips Brooks House, announces a drive to interest undergraduates in working with the Red Cross, as teachers in English and naturalization classes, and as boys' workers in the settlement houses of the tenement districts of Boston and Cambridge. Volunteers are asked to report at Phillips Brooks House before Saturday between 9 and 12 o'clock...
...Stelzle's argument was answered by Lawson Purdy, tax expert and comptroller of rich old Trinity, which by its 200-year old charter not only possesses valuable (and taxable) business and tenement properties but also has a right to all whales washed up on the lower West shore of Manhattan Island. Mr. Purdy argued that if church property were taxed its value would at once shrink because assessment is based upon market value. The market value of St. Patrick's Cathedral would be nothing because no one could afford it. Furthermore, said Mr. Purdy, the value of such...
...Model Tenement, Model Farms...
...period, as flagrant as a copy of the Police Gazette and as forthright as a set of brass knuckles. Good shot: a terrific fight with ashcans, fists, brickbats, blackjacks, between Chuck Connors' fire company and Steve Brodie's, while the hopeless Chinese in a burning tenement squeal for help...