Word: evicting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Congressman Augustus W. Bennett of New York, back from Washington with his wife & three children, lacked the heart to evict the tenants to whom he had sublet, instead moved in with a friend. The hardship was endurable: in Utilitycoon John Wilkie's home, the Bennetts got "eleven or twelve" spare rooms...
Unbearable Tenant. In Clinton, Tenn., a landlord asked OPA for permission to evict a 300-lb. tenant before she caved in his new porch...
...Takes a Heap o' Livin'. In Akron, Earl Hartung & family had to evict the squawking tenants before moving into the only place they could rent: a chicken coop...
Tenants reacted to all this in the patternless fashion of men making the last clutch at the lifeboat. Some cried that the whole thing was a huge bluff-an apartment owner must prove he is losing money before getting OPA permission to evict a paying tenant. Others argued that no law can keep a man in business if he wants to quit...
...Last Drop. The calamity howlers were sure OPA would be forced to eliminate price ceilings. But all prepared to fight until water in the last tap had been turned off. When Landlord Paul Sierson got OPA permission to evict 40 families from Villa Italia apartments, tenants began writing letters to the President, hired a lawyer, shrilly predicted that the place would be turned into a hotel if they were thrown out. The new rates, they said, knowingly, would be higher...