Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Insurance is building at the moment. Hayes knew that Boston had obtained the land by eminent domain; he did not know that Prudential had actually owned the site already and had asked to have it declared an Open Blighted Area in order to get substantial tax reductions under the Urban Renewal...
...issue was the President's proposal to create a new, Cabinet-level Department of Urban Affairs, with Federal Housing Administrator Robert C. Weaver, a Negro, at its head. Republican Senators and Congressmen opposed the idea of the department on grounds that it would merely add another cumbersome, costly layer to the federal bureaucracy. Southern Democrats inevitably were hostile to Weaver's appointment...
...Faced with all but certain Capitol Hill defeat, President Kennedy five weeks ago withdrew his request that Congress enact legislation establishing the department, ordered its creation under his reorganization powers. Thus, if either the House or the Senate did not veto the plan within 60 days, the Department of Urban Affairs would automatically achieve status. Kennedy made it perfectly plain that if Congress did turn down the plan, he would blame Republicans for being 1) unwilling to help the nation's cities, and 2) anti-Negro. And Weaver himself rubbed in the point. Said he on television: "There...
Upsetting the Applecart. But just a few minutes later, a House Republican upset the applecart. Michigan's Representative George Meader, onetime staff director of the Senate Government Operations Committee, announced that he would force the urban affairs plan to a House vote two days later. In the Senate, Mansfield hurried back onto the floor and announced that he would move to discharge McClellan's committee and obtain a Senate vote before the House could act. It was a fatal move: tough old John McClellan took it as a personal affront and began rounding up votes to defeat...
...vote-and the roll call was a stunning rebuke to the Administration. The count against the discharge petition was 58-42. Among the naysayers were 26 Democrats, including several from Northern states. The next day the House administered the coup de grâce, overwhelming the Department of Urban Affairs, 264-150. Among the in Democrats who voted for rejection were 18 from the North, Midwest and West...