Word: landlordism
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...PROGRESS OF JULIUS-Daphne du Maurier-Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Julius Levy was bred in the gutters of a Paris suburb, son of a Jew huckster who choked his buxom wife to death one night when Julius found her in bed with the landlord's son. Julius and his father straggled off to Algiers. There, orphaned, Julius learned to steal, snuggle in the arms of a Negro laundress, consider the English a "race of fools." Presently, accompanied by a 14-year-old prostitute disguised as a boy, Julius was en route to London. In London he followed the success story...
...defective transformer brought all passenger elevator service to a dead stop in New York's' 77-story Chrysler Building, marooned 14 passengers in cars between floors. In the crowded main floor lobby Landlord Walter P. Chrysler waited 25 min. while mechanics tried to fix his elevators, finally ascended to his office on the 56th floor in a slow-moving freight elevator. Hugo C. Leuteritz, communications engineer of Pan American Airways, would not wait, stomped up 59 flights to his office...
...horrible sense of acute humiliation . . . that a grandson of Emperor Nicholas I had to be rescued from Russians by Britishers," Alexander thought of suicide. Further humiliations were to follow. In Paris he was informed that he would not be allowed to enter England, for the time being. The landlord of his Paris apartment held him up for back rent. When he called on his old friend Arthur Balfour, in Paris for the Peace Conference, he saw Balfour running for an exit to avoid seeing him. Asked by Balfour's secretary if he would like to leave a message, Alexander...
...midnight solitude of his office, John Doctor, smalltown physician, spread his books out on the desk, began casting up his accounts. He owed his landlord $700 in back rent. His bill at the grocers was $200. Other stores about town had claims of $600 on him for household furnishings, clothes, books, jewelry. Against him was pending a $1,000 deficiency judgment because his home, on which he had a $5,000 mortgage, brought only $4,000 at forced sale. A friend held his unsecured note for $500. That made his total indebtedness $3,000 and his creditors were clamoring...
...would: 1) settle for 33? on the $1; 2) pay in full if given an extension; 3) be thrown into bankruptcy if neither proposal was accepted. The holder of the deficiency judgment, demanding his $1,000, favored bankruptcy. The grocer was ready for a time extension. But the landlord, the friend with the I. 0. U. and the town tradesmen, all needing cash, consented to take one-third of their debts and call it square. As majority creditors with claims of $1,800 against John Doctor they signed an agreement which the judge promptly confirmed. Turning over his cash...