Mobilization for Youth Aims to Transform Lower East Side
A Bernard Gavzer profile traces Mobilization for Youth in the Lower East Side, detailing federal backing, city match, and Ford Foundation support for a three year $12 million program. It describes aims, methods, and resident reactions in the slum as a social laboratory example.
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Bernard Gavzer
New York
Lower East Side
Washington
Robert F. Kennedy
The
United States
Mobilization For Youth Inc
MFY
New York City
East River
al Smith
al Jolson
Jimmy Durante
Eddie Cantor
David Sarnoff
Joseph Epstein
Louis
the Butcher
Lepke
Abe
Kid Twist
Reles
Brooklyn Bridge
14Th Street
President's Committee On
National Institute of Mental Health
Ford Foundation
Santa Claus
Private Polls Shape Campaign Strategy Across Parties
The piece notes how private polling has grown since 1948 and influenced Kennedy’s rise, Nixon’s campaign, and West Virginia primaries. It cites figures from the 1960 cycle, costs per state, and mentions pollsters, political scientists, and the evolution of sampling methods since the 1930s.
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Kennedy
White House
West Virginia
Bob Mellace
Charleston
W.va
South
Melace
Nixon
Nelson A. Rockefeller
New York
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Literary Digest
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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