Word: landlords
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Laws grind the poor," observed Oliver Goldsmith in the 18th century, and little has happened since then to alter that unhappy condition. To most impoverished Americans, the law's personification is a landlord brandishing an eviction notice, a creditor repossessing furniture, a social worker cutting off welfare payments. Nonetheless, argues Anti-Poverty Czar Sargent Shriver, the law can and should be made to protect the poor. To this end, Shriver, a Yale-educated lawyer, has been zealously promoting a pioneering program to expand legal aid to the needy...
Having broken the lease last month, French Landlord Charles de Gaulle last week told his NATO tenants precisely when he expects them to clear off French property. In messages to each of his 14 NATO "partners," he also pin pointed French evacuation from NATO's integrated commands. His timetable for all the au revoirs...
...economics of it that prompted Landlord John Bender, 81, to get a temporary injunction prohibiting King's takeover. The tenants, in fact, never did pay any rent to King, whose Southern Christian Leadership Conference has spent $1,000 to improve the building in the past month...
...case, city officials pointed out that the landlord had already been charged with building-code violations. Said Mayor Richard Daley: "There are legal ways and illegal ways of achieving our objectives. None of us would say we should use illegal ways. We have our courts and our legislature...
...faces, one black and one white, this may be appropriate. But in the North, particularly in Chicago, the law has just one face applicable to all. No one is above the law here." Stubbornly, King vowed last week to maintain his stewardship, pending a hearing next month on Landlord Bender's protest...