Word: eviction
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...neither the janitor, Caretakers' Office, or Real Estate Division was willing to evict or sanction the animals...
Wisdom of Solomon. In Vastervik, Sweden, the rent control board forbade Landlord Axel William Thunberg to evict Tenant Kustaa Joeesaar for snoring, but ordered the tenant to soundproof his bedroom...
Sound Reasoning. In Buffalo, the City Court denied Landlady Anna Kaitz the right to evict Hyman N. Barden because his snoring sounds like "a locomotive pulling freight cars up a grade...
...appellate term of New York's Supreme Court denied a Manhattan apartment operator the right to evict one Leon Mahler simply because Miss Bernice Zvelechovski had been living with him without benefit of clergy for six years...
...worst of the bad news was in rents. Many a landlord gave notice of what he thought were reasonable increases-10% to 15%. But many others made spectacular headlines with fantastic increases -100% to 1,000%. Many of these were efforts to evict unwanted tenants.† In New Jersey an apartment-owner addressed his eight tenants: "It is with the greatest of pleasure that I announce . . . I'm giving you one month's notice to vacate, get out, in other words to scram...