Word: landlordly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
Topheavy with leases, United Cigar Stores flopped into bankruptcy (TIME, Sept. 5). David Albert Schulte a few weeks ago hinted that his chain of cigar stores would do the same thing unless landlords showed leniency. To the U. S. citizen, distinguished from the U. S. corporation, bankruptcy is not an acceptable way of cancelling a contract. During the year many a lease-saddled citizen has gone to his landlord, obtained a reduction. Others have anxiously awaited the lease's expiration, ready to haggle for a lower price or to move. Oct. 1, traditional moving day in a score...
Sons takes up the tale where The Good Earth dropped it, at Wang Lung's death. His three sons, Wang the Landlord, Wang the Merchant, Wang the Soldier, divide the property. Wang the Soldier, who likes to be called Wang the Tiger, takes his in cash. He has a scheme to revolt against his aging general, lead the best of his troops to another province and set up as a war lord for himself. His scheme succeeds, and when he delivers his chosen province from the tyranny of The Hawk, brigand in residence there, he finds his career ready...
...simply and proposes changes which he believes will make the system function as it should. Whether the system is capitalism or socialism, he cares little. "The crux of the matter is, who receives the factory income? As the case now stands, it is a six-cornered fight between the landlord ... the bondholder . . . the stockholder ... the worker ... the management . . . and the state. If the worker or the state wins out, it is socialism; if landlord, bondholder and stockholder . . . it is capitalism; if the management wins out it is, so far, unnamed...