Word: landlordism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...minutes later Odell Waller died in the electric chair in the Virginia State Penitentiary for killing his white landlord (TIME, July 6) over 50 sacks of wheat that Waller claimed were...
...Sacks of Wheat. The case had a humble beginning. Waller sharecropped a wheat and tobacco farm in Pittsylvania County in southern Virginia. His landlord was Oscar Davis, a white tenant farmer who, no matter how hard he worked and sang hymns in the Methodist church, never got out of debt. Black and white, Waller and Davis were two poor, desperate men at the bottom of the South's economic heap. When the Government curtailed Davis' tobacco allotment, Davis cut Waller's acreage and denied the poverty-stricken Negro his due: one-quarter share of the threshed wheat...
Under Canada's rigid wartime price-and-wage fixing, Vancouver was the first city to convict a restaurateur who upped prices and a landlord who jacked apartment rents. Last week Vancouver became the first city to fine a company for raising wages...
...House Without a Landlord," first of the films, graphically portrays the relation of cooperatives to the problem of housing, while the system of food co-ops is explained in "Traveling the Middle Way in Sweden." Filmed in the manner of a documentary picture, the most ambitious of the three, "Here Is Tomorrow," depicts the system in action by telling the story of a bookstore in the Medwest...
...friends. Among these are such sinister characters as the dead man's wife and her lover as well as the dead man's mistress and her husband. The rest of the cast is made up of a broker who handles his friends' finances, a postman, and the Italian landlord. One of these--and the only one who is obviously innocent--is killed off just to keep the bloodthirsty happy. Meanwhile a suave detective and his typical Irish assistant try to put the clues together with the none-too-welcome help of the scatterbrained Mrs. North. Most mystery fans should...