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...daughter?" he asked his first petitioner, a mother with five children clustered round her. "Pretty good, my general," the woman replied. "I'm out of work and have five children and my landlord is about to throw me out because I'm seven months behind on the rent." And her husband? "He's out of work and can't get a job because he's just out of jail." When the President asked why he had been in jail, the woman began to cry. Perón said: "After all, what...
Under his new dictatorial powers, Mossadegh, himself a wealthy landlord, abolished centuries-old feudal dues and services, and ordered landlords to turn over one-fifth of their rents to the impoverished peasantry. Half of this sum will go to the sharecroppers on each tract. The other half is to be deposited to the credit of local, peasant-run cooperatives which are to be set up in each village to provide low-interest loans, tools, irrigation facilities and drinking water for the peasants. Point Four men on the scene applauded the scheme...
...Hogan is "misbegotten" because his spirit is as mean and hard as the rocky Connecticut land he farms. His daughter Josie is "misbegotten" because she weighs 180 Ibs. and stands 5 ft. n, "a big, rough, ugly cow of a woman." Landlord Jim Tyrone is "misbegotten" in the catalogue of Sigmund Freud; he has an Oedipus complex...
...Neill stretches them taut with manias -Hogan's is for money, Josie's for sex, Jim's for liquor-then lets them slack with remorse. Hogan tells Josie that their landlord is going to sell the farm out from under them, and makes her agree to a shotgun plot: she will get Jim drunk, lure him to bed, and keep him there till her father appears with witnesses. Josie reneges on the scheme when she finds 1) that her father has lied about the farm, 2) that in Jim's life there is room for only...
...real test will be what kind of quarters Kennan can find. It's all up to the only landlord in Russia, the state...