Word: landlordism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Life in a Tree. Frantic tenants stormed the rent-control offices. After three boiling days, the Los Angeles acting area director wearily closed his desk for the weekend with a final word of advice: "Don't move. Stay where you are. Wait until your landlord takes your case to court before you obey any eviction notice...
Apartment landlords seemed to have misunderstood the "voluntary" character of the 15% rent hike authorized by the law. Tenants were put under pressure to sign leases with the 15% boost. After getting a letter from his landlord suggesting a 15% increase, an Atlanta Constitution editorial writer wrote: "Oh, it's all very voluntary of course. I can either agree to the increase or adjust myself to life in a tree. You can't bluff me, I should have said, it's a free country. I'm a citizen, I know my rights. O.K., I said, where...
...British Raj which feared to leave him free, feared even more that he would die on their hands and enrage all India), Gandhi came closer to his goal of a free India. With the same weapons he got in some blows at his favorite social evils-untouchability, liquor, landlord extortions, child marriages, the low status of women...
Congressmen labored more effectively in committee rooms. One accomplishment was an agreement by House-Senate conferees on a bill to continue rent control until March 1, 1948-with qualifications. The bill would permit rent boosts of 15% over present ceilings, provided the landlord 1) gets a tenant's "voluntary" consent and 2) gives him a lease running through 1948. It would remove restrictions on commercial building (except for amusement and recreational facilities...
Persuader. In Chicago, Merlin W. Griffith and his family of eight went to court with a bitter complaint: his landlord, trying to get him to move, was using a twelve-piece band in the small hours of the night...