Word: urbane
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...effort of the Chicago Boys' Week Federation to select one boy as "Chicago's Best Citizen in 1950" deserves the serious attention of urban dwellers all over the country. Reports of the effects of a city on abnormal children are not lacking, but so far, no one has investigated the results of urban life on normal children. If it is carried out thoroughly, the Chicago plan ought to show what Chicago people think a citizen should be and also what they think their city is doing to children...
...many of our commonwealths," said Dean Pound, "a system of organization that grew up for the rural, pioneer, agricultural society of a century ago is inadequate to the demands of the urban industrial society of today. Here, as elsewhere, the tendency is to go on tinkering with petty details, instead of studying the matter thoroughly from the ground up. The subject ought to be approached in the same spirit in which Story approached the different, but no less difficult, problem of his day. To make a commercial law for America from the English decisions on the law merchant, the Continental...
...matter of the professor of Legislation. Dean Pound continues, "One of the chief problems of today is how to enforce the huge output of legal precepts required by the complex life of urban industrial communities. Here again is a subject in which a professorship, in a national school, in which students from every part of the country compel the teacher to consider the question from many points of view, may do great things...
...knives were thrown, bullets were fired, whips cracked as did bludgeons over heads, blood flowed and angry cries rent the air. Yet all was comparatively quiet. It was that the Opposition press had been effectually gagged; that a hundred questionable politico-social clubs had been closed: that the urban and rural branches of the Italia Libera Association, of which General Peppino Garibaldi is head, were shut down; that a number of subversive organizations had been rooted out; that people had been terrified by many hundreds of domiciliary searches made by rowdy and violent Fascisti; that scores...
...politician wants to incur the terrible wrath of the press, a wrath already rising at the suggestion that second class mail rates be somewhat increased. The wrath of this or that great city daily may be endured; but to provoke the almost universal enmity of the press, both urban and rustic, would be all but suicidal. The press wieldeth a mighty club. Congress may not lightly tread heavily upon its toes...