Word: urbane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Obscure in Manhattan was Hector O. Hamilton until, last March, his design for the Soviet Union's new Palace of Soviets suddenly won Red favor in competition with work submitted by eight world-great modernist architects, notably happy Josef Urban (TIME, March...
...study in New England showed that average church attendance varies inversely with the size of the community, from 71% in a village of less than 2,500 to 30% in a city over 50,000. Regionally, the lowest average attendance is in the urban Middle Atlantic states; the highest (78%) in the rural Southeast...
Wobbly Wings. Wings are a characteristic of the Democratic party?the urban Irish-Catholic wing of Tammany Hall and New England; the conservative Protestant wing of the South; the rural radical wing of the Northwest; the free, harum-scarum wing of the Southwest. Governor Roosevelt, nominated by a heterogeneous combination of the last three, crushed the first wing, left it bleeding and broken. The Brown Derby is still licking its wounds in sullen silence. John Jacob Raskob, who kept the party alive through four lean years, has been unceremoniously exiled. Regardless of Mayor Walker's fate, Tammany can expect nothing...
With demand naturally set by hungry city stomachs and supply controlled by him and his kind. Farmer John Chalmers of Boone County, Iowa, did not see why agricultural producers could not hold their food stuffs off the urban markets, give townsmen a taste of starvation and thus raise farm prices to a decent level. Tall, thin-lipped Milo Reno, belligerent former president of Iowa Farmers' Union, did not see why, either. Somebody, he argued, was bound to starve at current prices. Last May at the Des Moines Fair Grounds bushy-haired Milo Reno, in baggy trousers and a five...
...true, according to a thorough study of Massachusetts ex-convicts.* Three out of four men who once were in jail return there. The causes of original imprisonment were in most cases petty. The prisoners were unlearned in crime. But in reform schools and jails they found good teachers. The urban gangster is usually a reform school graduate, a county jail postgraduate...