Word: evict
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, reversing a lower-court decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington halted eviction of Cab Driver Rudder and his wife. Said the court's opinion, written by Chief Judge Henry W. Edgerton: "It [the Government] must not act arbitrarily, for, unlike private landlords, it is subject to the requirements of due process of law . . . The U.S. acted arbitrarily in undertaking to evict the Rudders. Their refusal to deny that they were members of any organizations on the [Attorney General's] consolidated list was not proof that they were members. Even proof that they were members...
...line with the prevailing level, Brady was not. The VA had signed a contract with Brady to accept $1 from him "in full payment of all rental during the term of occupancy." Just how this had happened, the VA did not know. Last week the Government brought suit to evict Brady. At week's end Brady, 69, was unruffled by the suit, looked forward to a ripe, rent-free...
...other committee member, and he from the opposite party. A Democrat in all of McCarthy's hearings would have kept the Wisconsin Senator from leaking bits and pieces to the press at times of his own choosing. It would also have checked the strong-arm tactics McCarthy used to evict attorneys and witnesses from hearing rooms...
Although Holden Green was built for Harvard couples, the existing Federal Rent control law made it impossible to evict tenants as long as they behaved themselves. The result was that students entered the apartments, got their degrees, and still continued to live in the development sometimes for years. During the thirties, when tenants were scarce, the graduating couples were allowed to stay on because the apartments could not be filled any other...
Today, however, there is little reason for allowing University graduates to remain at Holden Green. The changed Federal Law now permits landlords to evict tenants and should enable the development's renting agents to force out students when they end their University connection. Further, the oversized waiting list shows that there is anything but a shortage of prospective tenants. Fairness to those students waiting for room should make Holden Green, as originally intended, a purely University development...