Word: landlordism
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...home in one of the city's best residential districts. Before a prospective renter could move in, several unemployed families had taken squatters' possession of the house. Hundreds of such squatters are scattered through Seattle apartments and houses. Court sympathies are with the cashless tenant, against the landlord who wants to evict or foreclose...
...hotel's butcher called to collect what was due him, $100. The drummer's money being handy, the cashier paid with that. The butcher went on down the street, paid his rent, $100. The landlord owed his lawyer $100. The lawyer owed the doctor. The doctor owed the hotel $100. Before dark the same $100 bill was back in the hotel's safe. In came the drummer...
Interior's Wilbur: "The oil industry is in an increasingly sound position. . . The Western States are full grown and need not look to an absentee landlord to protect their interests. . . . Despite the exploitation of the [Massie] case by sensational newspapers, Hawaii remains one of the most peaceful communities in the world...
...Hoover. He campaigned on behalf of the Republican ticket in a schoolhouse address, talked temperance to the Methodist Sunday School. On Armistice Day he delivered an 80-min. address. He always seemed to have money, banked at nearby Bryson City, took a weekly Florida newspaper. He promised his landlord's pretty daughter that he would send her to college...
Richard Barthelmess, son of a tenant farmer who dies of the scrabble for existence, educates himself with the rich landlord's help, becomes the landlord's man. The poor steal the rich man's cotton, kill his men, burn down his store. The rich man juggles the accounts to keep the poor in debt to him, takes part in lynching a poor man. Each side looks to Barthelmess to betray the other. He snubs a tenant girl's (Dorothy Jordan's) clean love as he succumbs to the unholy temptations of the landlord's daughter (Bette Davis). When the burning...