Word: landlordism
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...landlord held him to his lease by telling him a story: Two little frogs fell into a churn full of cream. One swam around, got tired and decided he might as well drown. The other kept on swimming until he felt an island forming under him -an island of butter formed by his paddling. "Now," said the landlord, "do you want to be the little frog that gave up easily or will you be the one to keep on paddling and finally win out?" Adrian thought he would paddle...
...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...