Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Agree." With equal determination and solemnity, his fists clenched, President Johnson leaned across a rostrum in Washington's Sheraton-Park Hotel and addressed some 400 civil rights and Negro leaders at a Community Action Assembly called by the National Urban League. "One of the Presidents I admire most signed the Emancipation Proclamation 100 years ago," he said. "But emancipation was a proclamation and was not a fact. It shall be my purpose, and it is my duty, to make it a fact." With that, his audience rose and flooded the hall with a torrent of applause...
...acquire a chunk of the Yard--a chunk that would probably include Straus and Lehman Halls and possibly the office of President Pusey in Massachusetts Hall--Vellucci suggests use of urban renewal laws...
...speeches, sponsored by the Harvard-Radcliffe Liberal Union, will present a plan for urban-rural cooperation in South Vietnam. The VYA, like its American counterpart, places special emphasis on direct personal contact. Its plan involves the transfer of skilled labor to rural areas in order to equalize the rural and urban standards of living...
...hope that the struggle of poor people to save their homes from the urban renewal bulldozer will not be confused with a view of property rights that justifies economic piracy and racial discrimination. Stevan B. Goldin...
...pioneer in urban renewal, has won awards for his Chicago Hyde Park and Philadelphia Washington Square East redevelopments, Kips Bay Plaza in Manhattan, and the Pan Pacific Center in Honolulu. He also developed the master plan for several districts of Washington...