Word: landlordism
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Burned Up. In Tulsa, police seized a landlord who set fire to his property to burn a tenant...
...Paul Porter, woefully watching his price power over foods slipping away, clung hard to rent control. He announced that there would be no general residential rent increases, and "as far as we can see none will be necessary in the future." OPA surveys, he said, had shown that the landlord was generally better off in income (thanks to no vacancies) than he was in the 1939-40 period...
...worst of the bad news was in rents. Many a landlord gave notice of what he thought were reasonable increases-10% to 15%. But many others made spectacular headlines with fantastic increases -100% to 1,000%. Many of these were efforts to evict unwanted tenants.† In New Jersey an apartment-owner addressed his eight tenants: "It is with the greatest of pleasure that I announce . . . I'm giving you one month's notice to vacate, get out, in other words to scram...
When he rented a cottage in the hinterland for the summer, Payson S. Wild, Jr., associate dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and professor of Government, did so with the idea that his landlord was going to dig a garbage disposal pit on the grounds...
What it seemed to boil down to was fear of what the landlord, the butcher, the baker-the other fellow-was going to do. Maybe everybody would now try to make a killing. And then again, maybe he wouldn't. The U.S. people, at bottom, have a great deal of common sense. Now they would be called upon...