Word: urban
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their counsel Mrs. Mabel Walker Wille-brandt who knew every wrinkle of the Prohibition Law from her eight-year service as Assistant Attorney General. Last year Fruit Industries, on Mrs. Wille-brandt's advice, brought forth a liquid grape concentrate called Vine-Glo ("Just Pull the Bung") for urban vintners (TIME, Nov. 24). A client is supplied with a keg of nonalcoholic concentrate which Vine-Glo agents put down in his cellar. They dilute it, tend it for 60 days. By then it becomes wine of about 15% alcoholic content. Prohibition Director Woodcock explained again & again that he could...
Unhappy Wives stimulated Robert Latou Dickinson, Manhattan gynecologist, to study marital discontent. He asked 1,000 married women certain impudent questions. As women will, they answered him. The women were "what may be called the cultural type . . . urban, of good family background, married to professional men of moderate income [e. g. physicians], each with one or two children. They were considered socially normal in the ordinary relationships of work and life...
That the Negro, North and South, has been harder hit by the Depression than the white man was the gist of a report handed last week to the Department of Labor by the National Urban League. Upon investigation the League found that whites, dropping down the economic scale, have taken jobs normally held by Negroes. Black migration to cities has made a bad situation worse. Declared the League report: "The economic structure of the entire Negro race is in an alarming state of disrepair...
Most newsworthy of the League's findings were figures indicating a marked disproportion between urban Negro population and unemployment. Negroes, composing 17% of Baltimore's residents, account for 31% of that city's joblessness. In Charleston, S. C., half black, seven Negroes are out of work to every three white men. Negro population and unemployment percentages in other cities: Chicago, 4% and 16%; Memphis, 38% and 75%; Philadelphia, 7% and 25%; Pittsburgh...
Method of choosing family was as follows: The magazine reasoned that since more than 56% of the U. S. population is urban, the family must be city-dwellers. Indianapolis was chosen because it is a rail, highway and airway centre and because it is the nearest big city to the geographical centre of population of the U.S. (1.9 mi. west of Whitehall, Ind.). In Indianapolis the 598 Smiths, 174 Whites, and 3,366 Millers, Johnsons, Browns, Joneses, Davises, Wilsons, Moores, Williamses, Thompsons and Taylors listed in the telephone directory were asked to define the typical family. Then Reporter...