Word: slumming
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Harry Leibovitz went to Philadelphia from Russia in 1904, studied sculpture while working for Baldwin Locomotive Works. But when he married "Mama" Leibovitz, he gave up art, started a shoeshop in a residential section which gradually became a crowded Negro slum. By the time the twins, next to last of the ten Leibovitz children, began drawing and coloring, the family lived in bitter poverty. Morris Kellerman, president of American Lending Libraries (drugstore chain), discovered them, enabled the family to find a decent home. Samuel Fleisher, public-spirited Philadelphian, crusader for "Cultural Olympics" (TIME, Dec. 7, 1936), got the twins...
Like most other big U. S. cities, Philadelphia is cursed with sleazy slum districts, talks much about the redemption of its blighted areas. Last week it heard news of redemption from an unusual source: the U. S. Navy. Announced by the Navy was a full-blown plan to build new homes for the families of 1,100 Navy Yard workers on a dreary South Philadelphia site near Twentieth Street and Packer Avenue. Cost of building will be paid out of a $100,000,000 Army-Navy building fund set up by Congress to provide homes for defense workers and members...
...whom I signed up were mostly laborers from . . . the slum district north of town, and transient workers following up the potato and beet harvest, the damp earth still caked on their overalls and arms. All day long they straggled into the basement of the courthouse, their suspicion, disgruntlement and sometimes defiance thinly veiled by meticulous courtesy, cooperativeness and attitude of resignation. It seems to me that Uncle Sam is going to have one grand headache keeping tabs on these transient workers. Many of them were stumped when asked to give their address or the name of a person who would...
...London's upper-and middle-class shelter districts were not so grim as Writer Calder described. But raw weather and lack of fuel last week ended the "sleep trains" which used to take those Londoners who could afford them into safe, quiet countrysides. As for London's slum areas - where hunting cats prowled hills of rubble by day and humans crouched by night under railway and sewer arches-Writer Calder's war lilies were anything but gilded...
...California's 21.1% population gain in the past decade, San Francisco was hard hit, and better-apartment vacancies rose from 10 to a whopping 20%. A jittery Apartment House Owners Association frightened the city out of accepting a $2,500,000 United States Housing Authority grant for a slum-clearance project. In Detroit, Birmingham, Philadelphia, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, rents looked about the same as last year. In Chicago, Cincinnati, Atlanta, Omaha, they were a modest...