Word: evicting
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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...
...realize, with horror, that it is pronounced Marteen and that Benny came from deep on the ineligible side of the tracks, they have very little time left to give him a creditable background. When they swoop on Benny's father, he thinks they have come in force to evict him for nonpayment of rent. When he finally realizes what the game is, the boosters, the general, the girl and the no-good have to work out their own solutions...
...Theodore Gilmore Bilbo, who has been "dabbling in real estate" since she became the ex-wife of Mississippi's loud-mouthed senator, went to court for messing around with an old Southern accentuation. Seeking to evict a tenant of her Jackson, Miss, duplex, she said: "No damyankee is going to ruin . .. my house." Said the judge, dismissing the indignant tenant's charge of disorderly conduct: according to Southern usage, Mrs. Bilbo was "not cursing...
Considerable private trade goes on, especially risky, lucrative smuggling. Most legitimate marketing is handled by consumer-producer cooperatives. In parts of the Border Region, the old landlord-tenant system is preserved with modifications. Rent and interest have been cut an average 25%. Landlords may not evict tenants.Tenants must pay their rent on time except in cases of crop failure when both sides share the loss...
...authority"-suits them well. George VI cannot dismiss, disparage or even threaten his ministers. As was shown in the case of his brother, Edward VIII, they can evict him. But no minister of-the King, nor any truly British socialist, would ever dare to raise hand or voice against the Monarchy. The institution is the thing...