Word: urbanely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will be Dr. Luther Gulick, Committee on Post-War Planning, National Resources Planning Board, who has just returned from a conference on post-war plans in England. He will speak on "When Peace Comes." Professor Philip Cabot will preside, and the comentator will be Benjamin M. Selekman, Lecturer on Urban Industrial Problems at Harvard...
...West's youthful memories was the assassination of the Empress Elizabeth by the anarchist Luccheni in 1898. "He was an Italian born in Paris of parents forced to emigrate by their poverty and trodden down into an alien criminal class: that is to say, he belonged to an urban population . . . which wandered often workless and always traditionless, without power to control its destiny. It was indeed most appropriate that he should register his discontent by killing Elizabeth, for Vienna is the archetype of the great city which breeds such a population. . . . Luccheni said with his stiletto to the symbol...
...broke firmly with the tradition of decorative idleness. They occupied themselves during a seven-hour day with c carpentering, painting, and doing odd jobs in the rambling, converted school building which houses Cambridge's only colored settlement, and they spent the evening discussing and planning future "Weekend Work Camps," urban and rural, for which they expected to recruit several times their number from colleges in the Greater Boston area...
Last year the Catholic liberal weekly Commonweal reported: "The urban Irish have long since stopped even reproducing themselves; the urban Italians and Slavs are rapidly following their example. From the figures given in the [Official Catholic] Directory of 1940, it is evident that only the Mexicans are more than reproducing themselves in the various Catholic national groups." (The French-Canadians in New England are also doing...
...encourage each largely urban diocese to "adopt" a rural diocese and big city parishes to "adopt" country parishes, defraying the cost of missionary work there...