Word: landlords
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Multiple Bruises. In Los Angeles, Marie Waterman, who caught her fingers in a window while she was naked, and was rescued by a stranger, sued her landlord for $10,000 damages to her hand, $2,500 damages to her modesty...
Accusing their landlord of charging rent for unborn babies and departed visitors, a Harvard graduate student and three research fellows last night filed suit for $13,476 damages against the management of a Cambridge apartment house...
...Maud Gonne's talents and beauty were not for the drawing rooms of Dublin and the salons of Mayfair. One midwinter night, after a fashionable ball in Ireland's midcountry, Maud had seen an Irish peasant woman and her children flung out of their home by a landlord. Her gay companions shuddered and forgot. But from that time on, Maud Gonne devoted her life to Ireland's independence...
...Audubon, N J., Mrs. Myrtle S. Lewis defied a notice from her landlord to vacate a six-room house. Landlord David C. Lang then removed the roof. But the First Presbyterian Church Men's Club started building Mrs. Lewis a new roof. Despite a risk of prosecution for trespassing, the Men's Club remained firm in its "belief that all people should have roofs over their heads...
...University of Wisconsin Cardinal called the landlord's action "injustice of the vilest sort!" Iris, who is 20, and chairman of the campus social-relations committee, said she would take her case to court. She added: "I'm not afraid of sticking my neck out and getting my name smeared all over. I feel strongly." In Manhattan, Iris' mother gave her worried approval: "I know she has done right. . . . But I wish she'd let someone else tilt lances at windmills...