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Word: landlord (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Early in the summer, post cards were sent to the various rooming houses in the area, asking whether the landlord would discriminate against a foreign or colored student. If the answer was yes, the establishment was taken off the Housing Registry's list...

Author: By Bernard M. Gwertzman, | Title: Housing Committee to Continue Attack on Local Discrimination | 10/8/1954 | See Source »

Neal Hastie '52, Graduate Secretary of P.B.H., said the attack on discrimination is two-fronted. Not only is it aimed at the bigoted landlord, but also against a prejudiced student...

Author: By Bernard M. Gwertzman, | Title: Housing Committee to Continue Attack on Local Discrimination | 10/8/1954 | See Source »

...daylight time (thus annoying farmers) and whether to ban hunting when forests were tinder-dry (thus annoying Oregon's legions of deerslayers). In Washington McKay's horizons have enlarged considerably, without affecting the size of his hat. As Interior Secretary, he is the nation's biggest landlord, greatest giver of light and water, master of forest and range, controller of minerals and oil, boss of 56,000 people and a $519 million budget...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: The Old Car Peddler | 8/23/1954 | See Source »

Rent Control. In York, Pa., Landlord Pietro Pennine and his wife Josephine wound up in jail after Tenant Randal Marvel complained they had collected his $11 rent by covering him with a pistol, then taking the money from his wallet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, may 24, 1954 | 5/24/1954 | See Source »

...yourself fed. Once you make a success of your production, your staircase will be leveled by the footsteps of visitors." Others were afraid of being accused of exploitation. "Because Poor Peasant Kan Yao-ching once lent grain to Kan Yung-lin, the masses wanted to promote him as a landlord during the reinvestigation. He said: 'I really dare not lend out grain again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Tigers Borrowing Pigs | 3/15/1954 | See Source »

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