Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Turning to depressed areas and urban renewal, Harris, who helped write the Kennedy-Douglas area development bill, declared that massive Federal aid is vital, for "depressed areas account for 1/3 to 1/2 of our unemployment." And it is an absolute minimal necessity "for slum clearance to equal the rate of growth of our slums." The Republican bill for depressed areas amounted to $50 million in aid, he said, while the Kennedy-Douglas bill offered $250 million...
...Dorsey, political writer for the Cleveland Plain Dealer, says, "Both Nixon and Kennedy were well received in Ohio. The Kennedy crowds were more enthusiastic--you'd expect a concentration of Democratic voters in the large urban Dorsey he visited. Still, Nixon drew a very good crowd in Cleveland, and filled public Hall...
...constructive action. Second, it is too far removed from reality: Goldwater never tells us how various services are to be performed once the Federal government gets its "unconstitutional" nose out. If I were a private individual with several million dollars, what on earth could I do about, for instance, urban renewal, that would not be better done if I turned my money over to the Federal government? Goldwater admits that the necessary initiative is lacking on the state and local levels, but says nothing about instilling this initiative in state and local officials. It is meaningless to say that each...
...federal government"), for agriculture ("No power over agriculture was given to any branch of the federal government") and all welfare programs ("The government must begin to withdraw from a whole series of programs that are outside its constitutional mandate--from social welfare programs, education, public power, agriculture, public housing, urban renewal and all the other activities that can be better performed by lower levels of government or by private institutions or by individuals.") Goldwater goes on to denounce the graduated income tax as "immoral" ("I do not believe in punishing success.") He proposes a series of foreign policy moves that...
...high school student government. After Georgetown law school (1951), he served in the legislature for three terms, then beat a twelve-year incumbent in the Springfield mayoralty elections, carrying every precinct in the city for the first time in history. As mayor, he put through a dynamic modernization and urban renewal program, reduced the tax rate. Billing himself as "Springfield's Great Young Mayor," O'Connor showed himself over and over again on TV and in the papers with the slogan "Fight Furcolo Fumbling," argued that only a vigorous, forward-looking candidate such as himself could beat Saltonstall...