Word: landlordism
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...Halifax, N. S. newspaper appeared this advertisement: "If there exists in Halifax any house built since the War of 1812 and guaranteed free from pull-chain plumbing, children, dogs and unmuzzled radios, can its landlord supply warm sunny furnished room with kitchen privileges to sullen uncommunicative couple at $4.50 week...
...stands Manhattan's Paramount Building, its Longacre Building, half of its Empire State Building and many another. But Vincent Astor broke family tradition by improving Astor property. He put up $10,000,000 worth of buildings, modernized many old ones, became proud of his name as a landlord. Whereas in 1914 7% of the gross income of his properties was spent on management and operation, in 1922 the amount...
...taken the shape of tenement laws which aimed to force the owner to modernize his premises. This half-hearted legislation has seldom been either enforced or obeyed, and any really permanent improvement of housings under private management is rendered impracticable by the financial incapacity of the owners. Obviously the landlord, by very definition, can effect no change for which his impecunious tenants are unable to compensate him. The vast area of tottering, overcrowded structures common to all American cities cannot be patched or braced; it must eventually be scrapped in toto and replaced by a group of modern apartments...
Editor Baker lives in a house owned by Vice President Walter Edgar Bennett of the water company. When his landlord had his water supply cut off, because he failed to pay his bills in full, Editor Baker turned it on again himself, hired three guards to prevent agents from turning it off without court authority. The water company got an injunction against Editor Baker's guards but the Transcript kept on with its campaign...
...good. But she puts a bold face on it, makes up a stout story that drives her to many a deceitful trick. By working even harder she manages to keep the family fed. When her man has been gone too long she lets herself be seduced by the landlord's agent. Then a friend has to help her have an abortion. The agent will have nothing more to do with her. Too late she discovers her daughter is blind. As her sons grow up, the elder resents her fondness for his ne'er-do-well brother, who leaves...