Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...before the powerful House Rules Committee was the President's proposal to create a Cabinet-level Department of Urban Affairs and Housing. It simply was not in the cards for Rules to approve the bill and send it on to the House floor. The committee's five Republicans, backed by a resolution adopted by the House G.O.P. policy committee, were all against the idea as a needless enlargement of the federal bureaucracy. Four Southern Democrats, led by Chairman Howard Smith of Virginia, had a special objection: it was common knowledge that President Kennedy planned to name Robert...
...action was carefully calculated to put the G.O.P. on a spot. Democratic reasoning was obvious: a party-line Republican vote against the department, on the House or Senate floor, could be billed as an affront to city dwellers and Negroes alike-and no Congressman from a big urban district could afford to take such a chance in an election year. Yet there was nothing to prevent the big-city Republicans from voting for the Department of Urban Affairs. If the Kennedy Administration got its new Cabinet office, it would indeed become an election-year prize. But then the urban Republicans...
...from families of low social status, according to a Harvard study. For the university's school of public health, Drs. Eva J. Salber and Brian MacMahon surveyed the senior high school in Newton, Mass., which they chose because the social cross section is similar to much of the urban U.S. To get serious and responsible answers, the researchers got the questionnaires filled out during school hours and required students to sign them, promising that neither parents nor teachers would ever learn what was in them; 2,823 students, 90% of the enrollment, completed the forms...
...soundly trouncing Republican Harold Stassen. Dilworth energetically carried out the cleansweep urban renewal programs begun under Clark, made his own mark as an all-out liberal reformer...
Dunbar's importance lies in harsh statistics: 30% of U.S. high school students never graduate; the rate hits 50% in some blighted urban areas. As automation invades new fields, as unions make old fields tougher to enter, the unskilled dropouts are almost unemployable. Unwanted, they wallow in anger and sometimes crime. The U.S. can ill afford such "social dynamite," wrote James B. Conant recently in Shims and Suburbs. At Chicago's Dunbar,* Conant was delighted to find just about "the ideal in vocational education...