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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...
OPAmattox. In Denver, Landlord Robert E. Lee told the OPA he wished to evict Tenant Ulysses S. Grant...
Rights of Man. In Tampa, a tenant asked OPA to evict his landlord, complained that he was noisy...
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...
...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...