Word: dispossession
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...loaves of bread have gone to nourish the strikers. The servants do most of the labor, Mrs. Bijur sometimes helps (see cut). To protest the banking department's failure to rehire the strikers, the Bijurs last month refused to pay rent until served with a dispossess notice. Mrs. Bijur trudged up & down four flights of stairs rather than use the elevator and condone the presence of strike breakers, some of whom have joined an A. F. of L. union. She said "the scabs" had called her bad names, she had even been told she might have her "puss mashed...
...repeatedly threw his landlady, who was attempting to dispossess him, out of his apartment, causing her to be hospitalized for bruises, shock, a possible fractured...
...governmental prize package must be disposed of. The ponderous tomes, at present piled waist high about a Lowell House study, threaten to dispossess the owner. It is planned that they be offered to the Lowell House library, but in event of polite refusal by that body, the student will be left, as it were, holding the bags...
Secretary Ickes has pacified Governor Murray by assuring him that the National Recovery Administration does not really intend to dispossess the forty thousand Oklahomans on "uneconomic marginal lands." The Secretary only meant that it might be a good thing if "uneconomic" agricultural pursuits were discontinued, as indeed it would. But the clash, monetary as it was, yet succeeded in raising a problem at once delicate and important. What is the position of the individual in the face of the drastic national administration of the Recovery...