Word: landlordly
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...those of his family for a shack and half the crop he makes, less 10? an acre ditch and road-maintenance fee, 10? on every dollar's worth of supplies bought at the plantation commissary (patronage obligatory) for "management fee," further deductions depending on the character of the landlord. It was estimated that the average cash income of a Southern share cropper and his family in an average year...
...January when a youngster of 24 named Ward H. Rodgers, on the executive committee of the Union, addressed an outdoor gathering of hungry, disgruntled and dispossessed tenant farmers. Ward Rodgers, a Socialistic Texan with theological degrees from Vanderbilt and Boston Universities, was already in bad odor with the landlord class because he had been calling Negroes "mister." And as an instructor in FERA's adult education service, he had been mixing Karl Marx with the ABC's. He was quoted as saying he was willing, if share croppers were not fed, to "lynch every plantation owner in Poinsett...
...seven general officers who really run the U. S. Army have for the past three months been having landlord trouble. Neither Chief of Staff Douglas MacArthur, nor his Deputy, nor the other five members of the General Staff, had the faintest idea how much longer they would be in Washington. And while leases of the military at the Capital all contain a one-month's-notice clause, none of the staff or their aides knew what month to give notice...
...Maurice Halperin of the University of Oklahoma who testily adds: "The new landed peasant is better off than the peon in only one respect: he can starve without working, but the peon has to work while he starves." In expropriating land from private estates the Government hands the irate landlord bonds proportionate to the taxes he actually paid. Since most landlords connived with the tax-gatherers and paid less than they should, they are now neatly hoist by their own tax-dodging...
...mistaken impression that Vergie has jilted him. Vergie gives birth to an illegitimate daughter named Joan. John and his rancid wife Laura (Helen Vinson) adopt Joan. Gossip about Vergie's protracted affair with John causes the ladies of Parkville to boycott Vergie's millinery store. Her landlord ups the rent and Vergie's radio breaks down...