Word: urbane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...alarmed to learn recently that in your country since 1920, 4,000,000 per sons have left the land, 19,000,000 acres have gone out of cultivation, 89,000 farms have ceased production. ... In a generation you will have 90% of your population in urban centres and only 10% on the land. That is a danger to life. After the fourth generation the energy of the country man is worn out in the city .... [and the unemployed] gather in dark slums and in one room ... so that life will fester into rottenness. . . . How is the city going to perpetuate...
...speakers will include A. J. Muste, Dean of Brookwood Labor College; Elmer A. Carter, Editor of Opportunity, official organ of the National Urban League, a Negro organization devoted to the advancement of the colored race: and Louis F. Budenz, Leader of the Kenosha and Nazareth Strikes and Executive, Secretary of the Conference for Progressive Labor Action...
...with conditions thousands of miles away. Hence a great deal of difficulty is that people think in terms of a competitive system instead of a cooperative one. Actually this is not an era of free competition. Most of our people are on salaries and are forced by our urban civilization to cooperate for some large Corporation...
Half Wet, Half Dry. Ohio furnished the strangest political contradiction over Prohibition. Fortnight ago Republicans convened at Columbus to write a platform on which Dry Senator Roscoe Conkling McCulloch could stand for reelection. Delegates from Wet urban centres were frankly frightened at the strength developed by Robert Johns Bulkley, Demo- cratic Senatorial Nominee, a "repeal-and-return" Wet. Maurice Maschke, Cleveland boss, Ohio's Republican National Committeeman, fearful lest Nominee Bulkley should break through in Cleveland, Toledo, Youngstown et al and work Republican disaster, urged a Wet referendum plank of sorts upon the convention. But Wet resolutions were quashed...
...measures were taken toward reconstruction. Straying cattle were rounded up to await their owners, residents of the vicinities most damaged were assured that there would be a postponement of tax collections. In some neighborhoods moratoriums were declared on private obligations. Orphans and the aged homeless were packed off to urban asylums...