Word: landlord
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...astounding fact is that the U.S. Government is now operating some 100 separate types of business enterprises in which it has sunk at least $40 billion. Among other things, the Government has become the nation's largest insurer, electric-power producer, lender, landlord, grain owner, warehouse operator and shipowner. It monopolizes the world's biggest potential new industry: atomic energy...
Newsmen found that Chicago, long notorious for its slums, deserves its notoriety. As many as 1,000 people are crowded into buildings intended for 200. One landlord's monthly income from an apartment, which he had split up into living quarters for three families, had quintupled since 1942. On file with the city housing commission were 10,000 complaints about rats, bugs and other unhealthy conditions which "the city is doing nothing about"; 57 rat-bite cases were treated in the last six months alone. In rare cases where landlords were haled into court, three out of five...
...well-documented series brought quick action. Democratic Mayor Martin Kennelly hastened to announce a meeting of top housing experts to "consider" the News's charges, while Chicago's city councilmen and metropolitan housing council got ready to investigate on their own. One Chicago judge ordered a landlord to tear down a building listed in the News series, and show the court a picture of the empty lot or face a $2,200 fine. As a result of the News series, a bill before the state legislature to tighten up housing laws now seemed certain to pass. Said...
Within the rather contrived framework of a sideshow stand, where the customers try to knock down figures of assorted sins, the picture illustrates each transgression in turn. Avarice and Anger are embodied in a vignette about a greedy landlord, his wife and a poor tenant. Sloth tells how St. Peter dispatches a female emissary from heaven to slow down the feverish life on earth. In Lust, an adolescent girl is disillusioned when her mother has an affair with a roving artist. All three episodes are commonplace in writing and direction...
...ancient mansion on the Rhine, overlooking both the river and the four tracks of the main rail line under his bedroom window. The chief disadvantage was the lack of a private entrance. The house was quiet when the lease had been signed, and Lubar assumed that only the landlord and his wife lived on the top floor. But when he moved in, the house suddenly teemed with the landlord's six children, running up & down the stairs and through the apartment vestibule. Because of the bleakness of the housing situation, he decided to suffer such inconveniences in Spartan silence...