Word: urban
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hearing lectures and sermons in "signs" and watching choristers "sign" their hymns in unison is fairly common for U. S. deaf-mutes in urban centres. In Manhattan there are three congregations for them, Catholic, Episcopal and Jewish. Once a week Jews attend services supervised by Mrs. Tanya Nash, widow of a rabbi, who provides guest rabbis and interpreters. Because deaf persons cannot understand a person whose face or hands they cannot see, the parts of the Jewish ritual in which the rabbi's back is turned on the congregation have been eliminated. Catholic deaf-mutes in New York, Philadelphia...
England has been the first to recognize that the Industrial Revolution, creator of urban slums, has at the same time given to civilization the tools for clearing them away. She has inaugurated a public building program embracing all of England and Wales. This move comes as a result of long consideration and represents the only effective solution to the problem. The American government has realized that crime, vice, and disease can be combatted only by concerted action. This logic must and eventually will be extended to wipe out the slum, insidious breeder of these evils. TERTIUS...
...which competition from abroad will be looked upon as benefiting the American consumer. Temporarily it may throw some businesses out of gear and add to unemployment, but the Roosevelt Administration has nearly a billion dollars a year to spend on relief and doles and on transporting populations around from urban to rural areas, or vice versa, depending on the setting up of new industries, perhaps, or new services...
...answer the pressing question of the future of party government in these Unites States and he plunges knowingly into the heart of the matter. The cities now control a clear majority of votes for the Presidency, but due to Congressional groupings it will take, at the present rate of urban growth, ten years for them to acquire control of a majority of votes in the House and a minimum of twenty years in the Senate. Thus, while urbane politics presses upon us we need not expect its complete triumph for some years...
...that the later Greek City-States occupied a position parallel except for size with the modern state, Professor Holcombe calls in Aristotle to tell us what is possible and desirable. Let the middle class rule! Using the Communist theorist Bukharin's classification of classes he finds that the American urban middle class in alliance with the land-owning farmers can dominate the political scene. The function of this group is to avoid extremes of class conflict and to assert community interest over class interests. Their program should consist of concessions to the other two classes, avoidance of any repressive measures...