Report, December 28, 1931 to May 31, 1932
Author : New York (N.Y.). Mayor's Emergency Work Commission
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Page : 81 pages
File Size : 14,26 MB
Release : 1932
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Author : New York (N.Y.). Mayor's Emergency Work Commission
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Page : 81 pages
File Size : 14,26 MB
Release : 1932
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Author : Ella Howard
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 39,63 MB
Release : 2013-01-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0812208269
The homeless have the legal right to exist in modern American cities, yet antihomeless ordinances deny them access to many public spaces. How did previous generations of urban dwellers deal with the tensions between the rights of the homeless and those of other city residents? Ella Howard answers this question by tracing the history of skid rows from their rise in the late nineteenth century to their eradication in the mid-twentieth century. Focusing on New York's infamous Bowery, Homeless analyzes the efforts of politicians, charity administrators, social workers, urban planners, and social scientists as they grappled with the problem of homelessness. The development of the Bowery from a respectable entertainment district to the nation's most infamous skid row offers a lens through which to understand national trends of homelessness and the complex relationship between poverty and place. Maintained by cities across the country as a type of informal urban welfare, skid rows anchored the homeless to a specific neighborhood, offering inhabitants places to eat, drink, sleep, and find work while keeping them comfortably removed from the urban middle classes. This separation of the homeless from the core of city life fostered simplistic and often inaccurate understandings of their plight. Most efforts to assist them centered on reforming their behavior rather than addressing structural economic concerns. By midcentury, as city centers became more valuable, urban renewal projects and waves of gentrification destroyed skid rows and with them the public housing and social services they offered. With nowhere to go, the poor scattered across the urban landscape into public spaces, only to confront laws that effectively criminalized behavior associated with abject poverty. Richly detailed, Homeless lends insight into the meaning of homelessness and poverty in twentieth-century America and offers us a new perspective on the modern welfare system.
Author : New York (N.Y.). Public Welfare, Department of. Emergency Home Relief Bureau
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Page : 56 pages
File Size : 30,61 MB
Release : 1932
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Author : United States. Congress. House
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Page : pages
File Size : 49,2 MB
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Category : United States
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Author : Iowa. Governor
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Page : 430 pages
File Size : 20,97 MB
Release : 1916
Category : Crime
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Author : United States. Department of the Interior
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Page : 1184 pages
File Size : 23,76 MB
Release : 1919
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Author : Charles H. Harris
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 10,75 MB
Release : 2019-04-25
Category : History
ISBN : 080616364X
Official Texas Ranger Bicentennial™ Publication Newly rich in oil money, and all the trouble it could buy, Texas in the years following World War I underwent momentous changes—and those changes propelled the transformation of the state’s storied Rangers. Charles H. Harris III and Louis R. Sadler explore this important but relatively neglected period in the Texas Rangers’ history in this book, a sequel to their award-winning The Texas Rangers and the Mexican Revolution: The Bloodiest Decade, 1910–1920. In a Texas awash in booze and oil in the Prohibition years, the Rangers found themselves riding herd on gamblers and bootleggers, but also tasked with everything from catching murderers to preventing circus performances on Sunday. The Texas Rangers in Transition takes up the Rangers’ story at a time of political turmoil, as the largely rural state was rapidly becoming urban. At the same time, law enforcement was facing an epidemic of bank robberies, an increase in organized crime, the growth of the Ku Klux Klan, Prohibition enforcement—new challenges that the Rangers met by transitioning from gunfighters to criminal investigators. Steeped in tradition, reluctant to change, the agency was reduced to its nadir in the depths of the Depression, the victim of slashed appropriations, an antagonistic governor, and mediocre personnel. Harris and Sadler document the further and final change that followed when, in 1935, the Texas Rangers were moved from the governor’s control to the newly created Department of Public Safety. This proved a watershed in the Rangers’ history, marking their transformation into a modern law enforcement agency, the elite investigative force that they remain to this day.
Author : United States. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
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Page : 620 pages
File Size : 49,35 MB
Release : 1933
Category : Banks and banking
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Page : 442 pages
File Size : 19,42 MB
Release : 1928
Category : State government publications
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Early issues include some publications of learned societies as well as state documents.
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Page : 724 pages
File Size : 36,45 MB
Release : 1934
Category : Locomotives
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