Word: landlordism
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...Rome, where housing is just as scarce as in New York, London, Paris,* Moscow, Cape Town or Shanghai, one Carlo Levi, an Italian writer, painter and sculptor, was in a universal predicament. His landlord wanted to throw him out of his studio in the venerable Palazzo Altieri, so the place could be remodeled into smaller apartments. Levi, of course, had nowhere else...
...landlord decorated the studio's marble staircase with ripe garbage, cut off water and telephone service, and finally tried to budge Levi by painting insulting inscriptions on the studio walls. Samples: "Carlo Levi is a bandit and a rascal. . . . Since Carlo Levi refuses to make way for the worthy and the homeless, can't he have the decency to instruct his girl friends not to slam the door when they leave...
Artist Levi fought back the only way he knew how. He began painting in the halls a series of frescoes depicting intimate episodes in the life of his landlord...
...Cleveland, a landlord named Arthur Clark hit on a novel way of evicting tenants who refused to pay more than OPA rents. He hired a gang of thugs, equipped them with pistols, blackjacks, clubs and a baseball bat, sicked them on his tenants. One tenant died of a cracked skull. Last week Clark and one thug were convicted of second-degree murder, sentenced to life imprisonment...
...Colonel Robert R. McCormick's Tribune, still 3?, was rocking along at a 1,100,000-a-day clip.) No. 2: newsprint, $61 a year ago, had gone up to $85 a ton. No. 3: hard-headed John S. Knight, whose Daily News is the Sun's landlord, had raised the rent $800,000 a year. (The late Daily News Publisher Frank Knox had set it low, to help Field assault the Tribune.) Finally, said Field, he personally could go on taking losses for years-but if he died, his son could not. Inheritance taxes would come first...