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Moving into temporary two-room quarters on the 22nd floor of the Empire State Building, New York City's Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia discussed with Empire State's President Alfred E. Smith alterations currently under way in his City Hall executive offices. Said Landlord Smith: "City Hall looks like it needs to be sent to the laundry. You ought to sandblast it." Tenant LaGuardia: "That would be like polishing the dust off a bottle of old wine...
...youthful, steady-going Ote Mortimer, glad to get back South after a Depression which landed him in a Detroit automobile factory, proves that a sharecropper can still raise a paying crop, can keep from degenerating, enjoy pleasant relations with his landlord and his girl-Depression, drought and Erskine Caldwell notwithstanding. It is only when his desperately squeezed landlord cannot pay him enough to settle down to a normal married life that his girl runs off with a bootlegger and he smashes in Landlord Allard's head with a singletree...
...cooperatives. It will run Greenbelt's general store, food and meat market, drugstore, cinemansion, barber shop, garage and milk route. Prices will not be much lower than elsewhere but, after the Government gets a small percentage of the gross receipts, profits will go back to Greenbeltians. Landlord of Greenbelt will still be the U. S. Federal Government. When the town is fully populated, its residents can decide whether or not they want its retail outlets...
...partnership of dignified Philadelphia tradition which employs only male stenographers. "General" Francis Shunk Brown, a righteous oldster of 79, is the senior partner. "General" Brown is also president of the Board of City Trusts, and that institution, through its administration of the Girard Estate, acts as Snellenburg's landlord...
Mayor Wilson, an ex-officio member of the Board, pried into its records and last April made the following claims: Snellenburg's had an agreement with its landlord. Board of City Trusts, whereby, due to Depression-cut income, it could get its $682,000-per-year rent reduced; in 1933. Snellenburg's eight partners (including six named Snellenburg) withdrew $425,000 "of the profits . . . so they would get the $100,000 [rent] reduction." That agreement provided for repayment should Snellenburg's subsequently show a profit, but was subsequently granted again as an out-&-out abatement...