Word: landlordism
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...Host. In Los Angeles, Mrs. Anna Hagopian sued her landlord for $22,000 because, she complained, he had 1) torn down the kitchen sink, 2) removed her stove, 3) turned off the gas, 4) padlocked her bathroom...
Retort. In Chatham, N.Y., Landlord Frank Waldvogel explained to police why he had finally shot and killed a tenant he was trying to evict: the tenant just kept saying, "Hmmm...
...Philippine idyl is the two-year-old insurrection of the Hukbalahaps* of central Luzon. Although they are led by Communists, most Huks (pronounced hooks) are still (as the Chinese Communists once pretended to be) basically discontented farmers. The main demand of the Huks is for abolition of the absentee landlord system; or, failing that, for enforcement of an already existing rice tenancy law (70% for the tenant, 30% for the landlord). The late President Manuel Roxas refused their demands, unseated seven Congressmen sympathetic to the Huks. The Philippines' fat, hard-driving new President Elpidio Quirino thought he would change...
...landlord of an apartment house in a better residential district of Boston I have received loud and long complaints when I raised rents 15 percent last year in accordance with the housing law. This week I was happy to receive a bouquet from one of my tenants who attached the following letter...
...says, accounts for many odd quirks of Negro behavior. Negro tenants who pick up and leave their farrners sometimes do so, Cohn says, for a purely experimental purpose: to find out if they will really be allowed to keep mules or farm implements which they have bought from the landlord...