Word: evictions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...families Harvard plans to evict to make room for the eighth House and the Leverett annex, face an acute housing shortage...
...questioned Harvard's right to evict tenants, but many households complained of the suddenness with which it was done. One couple had just repainted their apartment; another was expecting a baby in June. This resentment is increased by the knowledge that the University does not own all the property on which it plans to build. Frequently, the lessees' neighbors show no intention to move. "I won't sell my property ever!" said one woman on Mt. Auburn St., "unless, of course, Harvard meets my price...
...production. The law set up in each county Agricultural Executive Committees (A.E.C.) composed of twelve farmers, who were charged with overseeing all the farmers within their jurisdiction, with the right to inspect whenever they chose, to prowl through barns and fields, to impose advice, and if dissatisfied, to evict those who failed to meet their standards. This power was not confined to eviction of tenant farmers. It included power to evict farm owners from their own farms...
...Harvard unit that it must enroll more students or suffer termination. Taking the ultimatum to heart, Harvard officers began a vigorous proselytizing campaign which substantially refilled the Air Force's ranks. They attracted 37 freshmen, all of whom desired flight training. But, despite the increase, the Pentagon decided to evict the local unit...
Hint. In Sydney, Australia, Landlord Hermanus Visser was fined $225 after a special court heard that in an effort to evict his tenants he had changed the lock of their flat, put their furniture out on the lawn, taken out the living-room windows, disconnected the water, gas and electricity, demolished the chimney...