Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bishop Sheil realizes that the backbone of his Church is the same lowly worker who is also C. I. O.'s backbone. Lately he became interested in the Back-of-the-Yards Neighborhood Council, organized by Saul Alinsky, University of Chicago sociology graduate who for social research once lived with the Capone gang. The Council is sympathetic to C. I. O. Bishop Sheil has felt pressure from the packers and from A. F. of L., but last week he was on Van Bittner's platform large as life after the strike vote was taken. In fact, he read...
...command, leaving the script to its own Sunday-supplement involvements. Operating on the Gold Coast is a scientific expedition with a German accent, run by a retired munitions magnate named Zurof. Zurof's outfit is stealthily engaged in cornering mines of war materials. Also operating somewhere in the neighborhood is a warmongering Mystery Radio, spewing anti-British propaganda and urging sabotage on all outposts of the Empire...
...French Fleet had one end of the Mediterranean tied up and the English had the other. Nevertheless, flushed by its recent conquest of Albania, Fascist Italy last week talked, screamed, shrieked empire. One night tens of thousands of ardent black-shirted Fascists marched from their neighborhood clubs to Rome's famed Piazza, di Venezia. Shouting their Fascist slogans, singing their Party's songs, they faced the lighted windows of the massive Palazzo Venezia, where, as they all knew, the powerful Fascist Grand Council was meeting to decide high questions of State...
...himself. Likeliest solution to the mystery lurked, not on the air waves, but in the files of the Amsterdam News in Harlem, whence thousands of Negroes go daily to gossipy jobs all over the metropolitan area. Not long ago the Amsterdam News reported a similar wraith operating in the neighborhood of Kansas City...
...rubbed out long ago along with all its romance and color by the Scizzorbills and Carpetbaggers who scrambled in here after the big Quake and Fire. . . . No, the little lady can assure her relatives back East that they'll be perfectly safe in S. F. especially in the neighborhood where she lives since the Pastor of that church, she refers to, is one of the leaders in the League of Decency organized to send this town to the "cleaners" for fair. No sir, her fears are groundless. Her folks will be just as safe here as they would...