Word: urban
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sake of Trade (as Christmas is lost in rubicund sales ads) what will remain? Only lovers in rural lanes will hereafter lift their eyes through glittery foliage and salute the orb. . . . A standardized calendar will do away with our last vestigial connection to a real heaven. So the urban business mind decrees. But some of us will continue to praise the moon, living and dying blessed lunatics, along with Orientals and other respectable conservatives...
People like the Joneses needed relief almost as much as the farmers, the bankers, and the unemployed when President Roosevelt entered the White House one rainy afternoon in March 1933. Within a few months Home Owners' Loan Corp. was established to furnish urban mortgage relief, issuing its bonds in exchange for distress mortgages. The mortgages were usually scaled down, payments were put off for a year or two, and cash advanced to clear up back taxes, make repairs...
...reading is principally from Sorokin and Zimmerman's "Principals of Rural-Urban Sociology", which, in spite of the assertions of the Sociology department, can be reproduced by any undergraduate after reading the first few pages. It is a condensed version of the three-volume "Source Book in Rural-Urban Sociology" and the contents might very well be reduced another third. The summaries at the end of each chapter, if read carefully are more than sufficient...
...Father Urban Habig of Phoenix once referred to Catholics of Hitler's type (not practicing Catholics) as "dead limbs on a living tree...
...spent driving up & down the streets of London with his ears pricked. He was delighted. Even taxi queues at the theatres were hootless. Home to a bath and breakfast, he announced to the Press that effective Sept. 16 the hootless night will be extended to all London and other urban areas throughout Britain. Explained...