Word: landlordism
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...that Monopoly was originally devised by Henry George to demonstrate the validity of his single tax theories. The basic patent on Monopoly was obtained by Mrs. Elizabeth M. Phillips, a Virginian who is indeed a single taxer and developed the idea years ago under names like Business and The Landlord's Game. Monopoly in its present form was patented by an unemployed Philadelphian named Charles B. Darrow, whose last job (1930) was with a coal company lecturing dealers on new anthracite uses. Inventor Darrow built the first set in 1931, sold a few to friends, finally got it into...
...think that we should be particularly interested in helping the poor farmer more than the rich ones. I believe that we should be interested primarily in the farmer who tills the soil and not in the absentee landlord. I believe that the A.A.A. so far has done a great deal of good and not done a great deal of harm. However, in the long run, I feel that crop restriction is unjust to the consumer and will eventually destroy commercialized farming itself...
...Under the cotton contract, share croppers and share tenants will receive 25% to 50% of the benefit payments and landlords the rest-in most cases a considerable increase for tenants and croppers at the landlord's expense...
Prime point of the Morrow plan was that United Stores Corp. would receive 444,840 shares, or 37%, of the new common stock at a special price which would give it a profit of $437,000 in return for money spent in acquiring landlord's claims. That, said the Special Master, was an "unconscionable profit" which Congress never intended when it passed the new bankruptcy amendment. Equally displeased were the common stockholders who had a p!an of their own. They wanted the Morrows to get only what they had spent for landlord claims, plus a small profit...
Since in Russia it has always been more important to know the exceptions than to know the rules, citizens of Moscow accepted with stoicism last week the revelation that in their Soviet midst a total of 1,667 Capitalist landlords have survived to harass the proletariat with extortionate rents. According to the Government Press, which professed itself scandalized, one Moscow landlady is now suing before a Red court to compel a proletarian family to pay her a bonus of 5,000 rubles for the privilege of not being evicted. When the suit appeared to be dragging on. Moscow...