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This part of the novel loses its savor almost as soon as Uncle Kim is buried. Readers may quickly forget the farcical, burlesque-show complications of the Tussies (46 of them move into a mansion; Grandpa greets the sheriff who comes to evict them with the query: "How many boys did you have to die for our country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lonesome Mountain | 12/13/1943 | See Source »

OPAmattox. In Denver, Landlord Robert E. Lee told the OPA he wished to evict Tenant Ulysses S. Grant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 11, 1943 | 10/11/1943 | See Source »

Rights of Man. In Tampa, a tenant asked OPA to evict his landlord, complained that he was noisy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 26, 1943 | 4/26/1943 | See Source »

Jack Johnson, first Negro heavyweight champion (1908-15); now 65, living in insecure comfort in Los Angeles. He went to court last week with his pretty white wife Irene, defeated his white landlady's attempt to evict them. Ebony-bald, plump but fit, he was smartly dressed, had a prosperous air, told reporters he was "retired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Apr. 12, 1943 | 4/12/1943 | See Source »

...Eviction. In Detroit, a constable got an order to evict a tenant of complaining Landlord Joseph Deeb, moved five roomfuls of furniture out into the street, then learned the tenant had already moved out, the landlord in. Cost to Deeb: $7 to a mover to get his furniture back in the house, the regulation $25 fee to the constable for his pains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 8, 1943 | 2/8/1943 | See Source »

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