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Word: urbanely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Local Government, represented by the Mayors of 26 important U. S. cities, met in Detroit last week to beg the Federal Government for a helping hand to carry the burden of urban unemployment and public distress. The meeting was called by aggressive, hard-bitten Mayor Frank Murphy of Detroit, which has spent itself almost to the brink of bankruptcy supporting its needy.* On hand among the 20 Democrats, four Republicans, one Socialist and one Farmer-Laborite, were New York's Walker, Boston's Curley, Richmond's Bright, Syracuse's Marvin, New Orleans' Walmsley, Miami's Gautier, Milwaukee's Hoan, Cleveland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Mayors, Misery & Money | 6/13/1932 | See Source »

Oval Joseph Urban exhibited a large wood carving of a madonna & child...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Spare Time | 6/6/1932 | See Source »

...Bennett Biscuit Co. was changed to Wheatsworth Inc.; two years ago it was sold to National Biscuit Co. for $5,300,000 in N. B. stock. A prime advertising stunt of Mr. Bennett's was the Wheatsworth "Gingerbread Castle" at Hamburg, N. J., designed by Joseph Urban after the opera Hansel & Gretel, visited by 500,000 people yearly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Florida's Tung | 6/6/1932 | See Source »

...failure of Governor Roosevelt to make a better showing in his first test of strength in the urban East caused sharpshooting Pundit Walter Lippmann to write in the New York Herald Tribune...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Chock | 5/9/1932 | See Source »

...considerable number of foreign students have seized upon this wok as an opportunity to acquire an intimate knowledge of some of the lesser known aspects of American urban life. Law school students are enthusiastic workers in that they have an opportunity to observe some of the practical social problems which they expect to encounter after they have begun to practice their profession...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Teaching of Aliens Proves Popular Activity Among Men In Harvard Social Service | 4/14/1932 | See Source »

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