Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...House and with national problems he has paid little attention to those of his constituents. He has not kept them informed of activities in the House. His unfamiliarity with poor health conditions, unemployment and de facto segregation in his own district have precluded proposals on the general range of urban problems which have arisen during his tenure in office. McCormack has rarely been the author of any of the liberal bills that he has worked to pass...
...precisely on these new urban issues that McCormack's Independent opponent, Noel Day, offers his strongest challenge. Day, benefiting from his active involvement in community affairs and knowledge of local conditions has advanced creative proposals for revising and expanding existing social legislation. The action groups that Day has formed to mobilize the groups most severely affected by urban disorganization add a new perspective to solving urban problems...
...displayed at the state level. Instead he has been a conscientious freshman Senator. He worked on two important committees, developing specialties within them where he exercised some influence. He chaired a subcommittee which drew up a package of bills designed to help the aged. He worked on the urban mass transportation bill and helped co-ordinate Massachusetts' transit program with the government's. He helped collect support for cloture and the civil rights bill and devoted his only major Senate speech to it, just before a plane crash hospitalized him this summer. His voting record has been a strong...
...former Oxford don, has long been the brilliant, erratic idea man of the Labor Party, was a member of the Keep Left group of party rebels that sniped at the last Labor government while it was in power. His main task: to carry through the state takeover of urban land, which Labor hopes will solve Britain's soaring land inflation...
Whitney M. Young Jr., head of the National Urban League, last night called on the federal government to use the War On Poverty Program to put more money into the Negro community in America...