Word: landlordism
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...Lords in the north-are real Communists who have studied in Russia, France, or the U. S. Whether or not they are connected with or receive assistance from Soviet Russia, whether their principles are understood by their followers, they have devised a system that works marvellously well in such landlord ridden provinces as Kiangsi and Hupeh. Last year it cost $45,000,000 to fight them. Most of the Nationalists were cool to the idea of battling Communism, notably Finance Minister T. V. Soong who resigned because he believed it a waste of money. His return this year was taken...
...fourth of the cases handled by the Bureau are student cases. Automobile accidents are the chief source of student business, although landlord and tenant cases as well as unpaid bills to merchants constitute a large number of cases. One student attempted to use a tutoring bureau for not refunding his money after he had failed an examination for which the bureau had tutored him. All sensible cases, regardless of the difficulty, are handled by the Bureau, with remarkably few losses. The only criminal cases handled are those in which students are involved in minor charges. Domestic relations cases where...
...Landlord and tenant cases provide the principal source of outside work. Although many trivial and amusing cases come to the attention of the Bureau, much valuable service has also been rendered. In the case of a man who was penniless and had all his property taken away from him by his landlady, the Bureau took the case and got a decision from the court to the effect that a boarding house must house at least five members not related to the proprietor. As a result all the property was returned to the rightful owner...
...projects: 1) abolition of the oath of allegiance to King George which is required of members of the Dail; 2) repudiation of the $25,000,000 payments annually made by the Irish Free State to Britons who used to own land in Ireland- the famed "absentee landlords." Suddenly and officially last week the Council of the Irish Labor Party reversed itself, announced that "the Labor Party has always opposed the oath" and further that the Party now stands for ''friendly negotiations" to scale down or terminate the landlord payments...
...among the worst in the world. Only one out of four farms has central light and heat, running water, a bathroom. One source of improvement will come from putting attractive homes within the reach of the small wage-earner who hitherto has given 20% of his income to a landlord. Low construction costs make the present opportune for such a movement, and building materials companies with little business on hand watch eagerly for straws...