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Turk also contends that Walsh is the legal counsel for a landlord whose case is currently before the Rent Control Board...
Sartorius (Robert J. Bouffier) is the widower in question, and he has built his house on the profits of being a slum landlord and renting out crumbling tenement flats to the poor. As his name suggests, his social position is entirely exteriorized: it is in his clothes, his house, his manners, but he is still conscious of his working class origins. This makes it even more striking that he should say: "When people are very poor, you cannot help them, however much you may sympathize with them...
...students, Mary Burnham and Greg Kirkpatrick, were leaving an apartment building when they were struck by the dishwasher. The landlord reportedly pushed it off the balcony rather than carry it downstairs...
Julekha Dash, Burnham's roommate, had harsh words for the landlord. "The fact is the landlord was negligent. How could anyone drop a dishwasher from forty feet up in the air? He didn't even look before he dropped the dishwasher," Dash said. CORNELL...
...Landlord Alex Steinbergh defended himself from these complaints last week in hearings before the city council's sub-committee on rent control...