Word: landlordism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...late Colonel Frank Knox quartered the Sun in his spacious Daily News plant, let it use his presses at night and was nice about the rent. Hardheaded John S. Knight later took over the Daily News, but not its feuds. He played footie with McCormick; and as a landlord saw no reason to charge the Sun less than the traffic would bear. Last year he tripled Field's $353,000-a-year rent...
...Chairman J. Parnell Thomas came up with the real explanation: the witness simply had a housing problem. Living under an assumed name, he had already been evicted from several apartments when other tenants found out who he was; they thought that he made the place unsafe. It was his landlord, not the vengeful Communists Kravchenko was hiding his face from...
Constitutionality of the recently enacted rent control law was hold in "grave doubt" yesterday by Federal Judge Paul Jones in Cloveland, Ohio, taking the part of the landlord in a petition process filed by the housing expediter and the area rent control officer...
...Manhattan, an apartment-house tenant last week was handed an ultimatum from his landlord. He could either buy his apartment for $10,000 or he would have to move out to make room for someone who would. When the tenant took his troubles to the Office of Rent Control, he found-along with hundreds of others-that the new rent-control law had a loophole. And landlords, chafing under rent ceilings, had found it. They could sell their apartments to tenants-or outside buyers-as "cooperatives," without so much as a by-your-leave from...
...sponsor of the national rent-control law, he had favored a "voluntary" 15% provision for the rest of the country. As a tenant of the Westchester Apartments, he and several other Senators were fighting a 17½% rent hike proposed by their landlord. The country's tenants would be watching Buck...