Word: landlordship
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...Newsday first leaked to the press (TIME, March 23), the main opposition came from six minority stockholders (49%), all heirs of the late Alicia Patterson Guggenheim. Emotionally committed to Alicia Patterson's strong sense of local identity and control, they were not eager to submit to absentee landlordship. Last week the majority stockholder (51%), Captain Harry Guggenheim, announced that he had indeed sold, for a reported $33 million. "I believe," said the Captain, that the sale "will assure the independence of Newsday." Said Joseph Albright, one of the minority stockholders: "I'll be very interested to find...
...elected this Illinois-born lawyer to the U. S. Senate in 1906. He owns no residence in Idaho. Rarely has he risen on the Senate floor to speak out for Idaho's sectional interests. Last week Senator Borah knew the acid test had come for this absentee political landlordship. Did Idaho Republicans think his reputation for Senatorial eloquence and independence worth a sixth term...
...landlordship to the Negros is one of circumstance rather than design, for Harlem's color once was predominantly Jewish-white, and when the better Negro sought a better-than-slum home only the compassionate Jew would suffer him to rent such a domicile. The influx of all other Negroes soon forced the Jew out but into the housing business...
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