Word: landlords
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there be a duty to provide for tenants evicted as a consequence of restricted production of the "poverty crop,'' on whom does such duty devolve-the economically enslaved, debt-ridden landlord or the Government responsible for policies that inflict poverty on all producers of such crop...
...followers deployed, picketed, raised their placards: "Starvation Standards of Home Relief Make Real Ghost Writers." Real Ghost Writer Bodenheim, pale, unshaven and muss-haired, stormed inside, announced that he was "on the brink of starvation." He had applied for relief six weeks before, but none had come and his landlord had evicted him. He pointed to his threadbare clothes, dirty shirt, unlaced boots. Said he: "All I ask is enough for three meals a day and a cheap room." He waved a grimy hand. "I ask no wine." For 45 minutes, Author Bodenheim was closeted with the relief administrator...
...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...