Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Five years ago Elsy Florence Eva Borders, London housewife, was enraged when her new house, like many another product of Britain's depression building boom, began to leak, creak and crumble. Last year she stopped making mortgage payments to the building society, and when the society sued, personally fought Britain's legal heavyweights to a standstill. "Portia" Borders became the heroine of thousands of Britons who pay high rents for grimy kennels or find their shiny new houses falling apart. Many of them have been making it tough for landlords as increasing numbers of "Tenants' Defence Leagues...
...sometimes have a good legal case and have even recovered back rent paid in excess of the law. More often the strike is completely illegal, but that does not make the landlords much happier. Last month when 83 police smashed through a strikers' barricade in Stepney, East End London borough, and evicted five families, Tenant Defence detachments promptly reinstated them. Boasts Father John Groser, Church of England leader of the Stepney strike: "Many landlords have watched the straws in the wind and capitulated to just demands. Those who refuse, we are forced to fight-and we haven...
Divorced. Gracie Fields (real name: Stansfield), 41, Britain's No. 1 music-hall comic; from Actor-Producer Archie Pitt; in London, England...
...Call had reprinted the cartoon from the London Daily Herald, for whom it was drawn by Australian-born William Henry Dyson. Will Dyson had been fired for "utter incompetence" by Lord Northcliffe when George Lansbury took him on the Herald at $25 a week in 1912. In the great days of the Herald his savage satires on British complacency won him fame if not money; his "Sentenced to Life" and "The Vampire" were reprinted far & wide. Opposed to the War, he nevertheless refused to attack England while it lasted. A year of frontline duty and two-wounds deepened his cynicism...
Thus the Yorkshire Post recently summed up one of the most curious phenomena of modern British journalism. A revival of the classic art of pamphleteering, London's newsletters are mimeographed or cheaply printed, distributed by mail to subscribers at home and abroad. Beginning about six years ago, newsletters have grown in circulation and influence until as of last week they were reaching hundreds of thousands of selected readers and had created an international incident...