Word: urban
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...readily obtainable in every city of consequence in the country. ... If the law is not enforceable in cities [where dwell 40% of U. S. population] it cannot be considered enforceable as a national instrument. ... I cannot find any reasonable ground for the expectation that public sentiment, especially in urban districts, can be changed to the extent necessary. . . . Repeal is the only consistent alternative...
...Charley Urban, onetime University of Pennsylvania footballer and 2201b. wrestler, signed a professional wrestling contract with a Philadelphia promoter. "A preacher doesn't get much money and the little I can make on the side will keep me in a cheerful frame of mind which . . . will be reflected in my sermons," said...
...seem that the more conversant a young man becomes with the different elements of the existence that he will have to lead, the more able he will be to cope with it. There is the added factor that many American universities are either in or near large cities, and urban life has never been conducive to fostering youthful fancies. The question seems to depend upon whether it is more advantageous to experience life while young and have ample opportunity to rectify unavoidable mistakes, or to make those inevitable errors at a more advanced stage when their gravity...
Passed a bill appropriating $45,000,000 for Drought Relief; sent it to the Senate; adopted a special rule to force it to conference over Urban objections...
Religion. Although urban Cubans are mostly Catholic, Voodooism flourishes in small towns and "up country." Within the fortnight Mayor Miguel Quintana of Pueblo Nueva has confessed that he and three other Negro townsmen recently sacrificed eight-year-old Martin Perez to Voodoo Goddess Chantong...