Word: landlords
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some time ago you published an article on the economic condition of many of the Southern tenant farmers, especially the Negroes. You told how one Negro had obtained a judgment against his landlord for unlawful interest charges, and how the latter stood to pay considerable damages [TIME, June 13]. You also pointed out the possible widespread significance of this judgment...
...host to accompany him in riding over the estates. Presently they clattered up to some still-smoking hovels and a group of dispossessed peons standing abjectly in the road. The peons explained to the President that they were squatters who had refused to be dispossessed until finally the landlord's men had burned them out of their shacks. Said Lázaro Cárdenas in a cold rage to his host: "Don't you know that it is the duty of the rich and fortunate to help the poor? Are you not ashamed to burn the houses...
...answered the landlord, without enthusiasm...
...from the peons' standpoint are: 1) this kind of Government finance has been so hard on the peso that prices are rapidly rising, the cost of living soaring; 2) there are complaints that Government underlings, not imbued with Cárdenas' high ideals, are behaving like unscrupulous landlords in the U. S., keeping the books so that illiterate peons still stay in debt even after their crops are harvested; 3) in some cases peons incapable of farming without a landlord's direction, are raising smaller crops than ever before on the same land...
...Less Taylor, a tenant on the J. W. Copeland plantation in Washington County, Miss., and 200,000 other sharecroppers and renters in Mississippi, is that Less Taylor got for his lawyer old Percy Bell of Greenville, onetime chancery judge and independent as a hog on ice. Chief difference between Landlord Copeland and many another in the Yazoo Delta is that he did not get away with making a good thing of The Book. At Jackson last week, the supreme court of Mississippi reversed a Washington County Chancery judgment, declared: "According to the appellee's [Copeland's] own testimony...