Word: landlordly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scene in which he does an imitation of Will Rogers. (Four years ago when Comedian Stone was hurt in an airplane crash, Funnyman Rogers took his place in Three Cheers.) Except for that scene and his one good song ("There's a Bluebird in My Window and a Landlord at My Door") Fred Stone spends most of his time offstage...
Because his lease stipulated cancellation if his earnings were impaired by an act of God. Paul G. Forthy of Birmingham, Ala. vacated when the Depression whittled down his income. He was sued by his landlord. Judge Arthur Jenkins last week ruled that the Depression...
...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...