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Overhead Problem. In Johnstown, Pa., an Altoona landlord got no satisfaction when he took his troubles to the OPA: a 400-lb. tenant on the second floor threatened the first floor ceiling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 22, 1946 | 4/22/1946 | See Source »

...Your field of non-customer prospects is broad and rich. It includes both tradesmen and professional people, your landlord, your insurance agents, your bridge group, your golf foursome, members of your church, lodge, alumni club...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Giant of the West | 4/15/1946 | See Source »

Directed by Edward J. LeCam, high ranking students of the Law School are once again operating the Legal Aid Bureau, lapsed since 1942, to handle divorce, landlord, and tenant cases that would not ordinarily involve a retainer or fee for an attorney...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Legal Aid Bureau Is Reopened After Closing for Four Years | 4/9/1946 | See Source »

...Loud, ewe-mouthed, old-Ziegfeldian Funny woman Fanny Brice, in a Bronx rage involving her husband, her landlord and a winning sweepstake ticket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Mar. 25, 1946 | 3/25/1946 | See Source »

...enough evidence to convict Gopal, they hired a brilliant lawyer and ordered him to manufacture the best evidence that money could buy. Then Gopal's family began to confect evidence for the defense. Both families finecombed their tenants and employes, singling out those whose lives depended upon their landlord's bounty, and ruthlessly training them as "witnesses." Others who yearned to stand in well with the British Raj or with the Congress Party were bribed with promises of political preferment. One clerk, who worked in the British magistrate's office, sold "evidence" to both sides so profitably...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murder In India, Mar. 25, 1946 | 3/25/1946 | See Source »

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