Word: landlordism
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...home to their sick and starving families, Illinois passed its Dram-Shops Act. Any one injured or deprived of his means of support as a result of another person's intoxication could apply for damages not only from the grog seller, but from the grog seller's landlord. Repealed during Prohibition, Illinois' Dram-Shops Act of 1874 was revived in the Liquor Control Act of 1934, and last week it was invoked by a Chicago lady who claimed her Christmas had been spoiled by her husband's dramming...
...TINY DIAMOND-Charlotte Murray Russell-Double day, Dor an ($2). Vacationing in Chicago, a practical, small-town spinster discovers her landlord's corpse, scolds the police, shadows a cross eyed man, gets thrown downstairs and discovers the ingenious criminal...
While "our southern brothers" are looting U. S. capitalists discreetly, a much greater number of Mexican landlords are notified from time to time by the Government that their estates have been taken from them (in exchange for what the Mexican Congress calls "ironclad, guaranteed bonds" which they must accept) and parceled out among the local peasants. A Mexican peasant, once established on such land, is by no means sure that he will not be visited by a landlord's lynching party who may cut off his ears and throw them in his face. Incidents of this kind have their...
...Tetovo, delinquent tenants had their house fired by Landlord Tefik Shazovich, lost all their belongings in the flames. Haled into court, Landlord Tefik Shazo-vich snapped: "The rent they owed me was just about equal to the price of their cheap furniture. We are quits...
Tenant In San Francisco, while rowing over rent payments with Grocer Daniel Del Carlo, Landlord George Figone wagged his thumb in his tenant's face, had it completely bitten...