Word: tenements
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...born in Denmark in 1849, and came to this country while still a boy. He was well known for years as police reporter of the New York Sun, and he has always been most active in the small parks and play grounds movement, and in securing reforms in tenement house and school administrations. Among his books are, "How the Other Half Lives," "The Children of the Poor," "Nibsy's Christmas," "Out of Mulberry Street," "The Battle with the Slum," "Theodore Roosevelt, the Citizen." In "The Making of an American," Mr. Riis gives an autobiographical sketch...
...that widespread increase of production of the commodities of life is beneficial and should be encouraged instead of restricted. Another fallacy is the belief that money invested is not used for the public good as it would be if spent in the construction of a steam engine or a tenement house. The money might be better employed, it is true, but nevertheless it is increasing the working capital
...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...