Word: landlordly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...story is the long struggle of the Southern sharecropper for the right to buy food, gin & sell his part of the cotton crop wherever he wants, instead of where the landlord wants. Still older is the story of the sub-subsistence living level of some 2,000,000 Southern tenant farmers. But a newer and somewhat brighter tale is that of the incipient cropper colony movement, both public and private...
...English couple, stranded on the Riviera, go spookily senile. A self-styled inventor, he arranges elaborate booby-traps for duns; she collects cats. When the landlord sniffs a rat he finds the old man has been dead for days, the old woman pretending not to notice...
...that Monopoly was originally devised by Henry George to demonstrate the validity of his single tax theories. The basic patent on Monopoly was obtained by Mrs. Elizabeth M. Phillips, a Virginian who is indeed a single taxer and developed the idea years ago under names like Business and The Landlord's Game. Monopoly in its present form was patented by an unemployed Philadelphian named Charles B. Darrow, whose last job (1930) was with a coal company lecturing dealers on new anthracite uses. Inventor Darrow built the first set in 1931, sold a few to friends, finally got it into...
...think that we should be particularly interested in helping the poor farmer more than the rich ones. I believe that we should be interested primarily in the farmer who tills the soil and not in the absentee landlord. I believe that the A.A.A. so far has done a great deal of good and not done a great deal of harm. However, in the long run, I feel that crop restriction is unjust to the consumer and will eventually destroy commercialized farming itself...
...Under the cotton contract, share croppers and share tenants will receive 25% to 50% of the benefit payments and landlords the rest-in most cases a considerable increase for tenants and croppers at the landlord's expense...