Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years received a citation for Springfield as the outstanding town in the Commonwealth from the University of Massachusetts Bureau of Government. The same year the city was chosen as an honorable mention All-American city and received encouraging aid in its urban renewal attempts--O'Connor's forte...
...international student residence of the Harvard School of Public Health was dedicated by Pusey in a special ceremony as "The Henry Lee Shattuck "International House." At the same time Pusey announced the establishment of a Henry Lee Shattuck Professorship of Urban Government...
...little bewildered, and Kennedy accepts the early label as accurate: "I'd just come out of my father's house at the time, and these were the things I knew." He meticulously served the parochial interests of his district-Boston's poorest-voting for housing, urban renewal, veterans' pensions, social security, codfish. For the larger issues, Kennedy had little time or interest. Much of his time was spent in pursuit of pretty girls and higher elective office, and his absenteeism was notorious (in six years in the Lower House, he missed more than a quarter...
...Funds for enaction of the Democratic platform could come from economic growth, better money policy, and tightening of tax loopholes. Some reforms could be financed by money saved through improvement; for instance, urban renewal (O'Connor's forte) costs money but will save on crime, fire, and disease protection...
...Connor, when given the opening by a question, said, "I am a liberal progressive. I support aid to urban renewal and depressed areas, for tightening tax loopholes, for housing bills." Sen. Leverett Saltonstall '14, O'Connor's opponent, "voted against all these bills...