Word: landlordly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...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...