Word: evict
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...What crimes by unemployed veterans camping in the streets of Washington did the Attorney-General cite, calling in the Army to evict them...
...while, New York State did nothing about the invaders, hoping that the problem-and the Indians- would simply go away. Only in September did the state go into federal court seeking to evict the Indians, basing its case on the fact that the Mohawks had been pro-British belligerents during the Revolutionary War and had later signed away their lands. The Indians reject that claim. "The Mohawk land was lost by fraud, and its possession by New York State and the State of Vermont constituted] illegal usurpation," charges the Ganienkeh Manifesto...
...Ware offered to pay the tax -plus interest and penalties. Gray was not interested. The case has been up to both the Illinois and U.S. Supreme Courts, but almost every judge has seemed satisfied that a speculator can indeed get a $25,000 home for $41.57 in unpaid taxes, evict the owner and sell it for all he can. In Illinois, that is-as they say in the movies-perfectly legal...
Listening to the WHRB broadcast I was wondering why Mr. von Stade was complaining about being thrown out of an office building while Harvard was going to evict people from their homes, until he said something about how it was wrong to lay a hand on an official of Harvard University. Then I understood, because the people who run Harvard are elitist, and think that since they are from the social class which enables them to know more about Celtic Literature or kidney transplants they also know better than working class people what is better for the latter. Do they...
Tenant groups admit that control does not solve the housing problem. CTOC holds that the solution to housing problems is the abolition of private property. CTOC spokesmen argue that control lowers rents for some tenants, and makes it harder for landlords to evict residents. Controls are also useful, according to CTOC, as a catalyst in tenant organization for more basic reform...