Word: evictions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...then, do tenants and their organizations fight for rent control? Why do landlords fight against it? The actual demands of the tenants are for decent housing at rents we can afford to pay, and security against the landlords' power to evict. The actual demands of landlords are for cheap housing at whatever rents the market will bear, and complete control over who lives in their properties and who doesn...
...count out, as his landlords have learned. It seems that the Inch Corp., a real-estate holding company, bought the building that houses Jack Dempsey's restaurant, a Broadway landmark for tourists and the prizefight crowd, in 1967. Since then, Inch has tried to evict Jack on the grounds that his lease is no longer valid. Taking him to court in June 1973, Inch was outpointed when Dempsey won the ruling. Bouncing back, Inch sued again in December. Last week a judge again gave Dempsey the decision. Even as Jack savored a victory lemonade, among pictures of past triumphs...
...Watergate's many side effects has been to evict from the public's attention the figure of the beleaguered reporter languishing in jail for refusing to name his news sources. The investigative reporter triumphant has replaced him and the controversy over disclosing confidential information has shifted from newsmen's notebooks to the Oval Office tapes. But this triumph is illusory. Across the country, reporters, editors and publishers still face a variety of judicial and legislative attacks that threaten basic press freedom...
...public housing development that is home for a thousand people, in August. At that time, Cambridge Health Commissioner James Hartgering threatened to condemn the 96-unit tower building, which he called "unfit for human habitation."This provoked some discussion, but few people seemed to believe that Hartgering would actually evict tenants...
...opposed spitting on old ladies and beggars, and they did not advocate including an end to this practise in the list of demands. Aside from an immediate end to the mining of Haiphong, the main demand adopted by the meeting was that Harvard not call in the police to evict a group of black students who had seized Massachusetts Hall that morning and insisted that Harvard sell its stock in Gulf Oil, as a protest against that company's payments to Portugal, which was (and for that matter still is) suppressing several African revolutions...