Word: mrs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mrs. Elsie Phillips, shabby and 56, sat on the porch of her dingy Los Angeles home, and wept...
Eight years ago, Mrs. Phillips sent a radio to be repaired. The bill came to $8.90. Mrs. Phillips refused to pay-she thought it was going to cost only $1. She sent her 20-year-old son to get the radio back. But John, an easy mark for a fast sales talk, came home with a new radio, for which he had agreed to pay in $1.25 weekly installments. The radio-shop owner, chubby A. M. Pearson, got Mrs. Phillips to sign the contract...
...When Mrs. Phillips fell into arrears on her payments, Radioman Pearson went to court and got a judgment which ordered her to give back the radio and pay him $81.50 in court costs and collection fees...
...Mrs. Phillips gave up the radio, but could not pay the rest. In August 1943, Pearson had the city marshal sell off Mrs. Phillips' assets-her house and lot-to satisfy the court order. Pearson was the only bidder, and he offered $26.50. A year later, as required by law, the marshal delivered the deed to Pearson. During those twelve months, Mrs. Phillips could have kept her home by paying the $26.50 plus a $25 marshal's fee. She says nobody told her that...
Last week Pearson had the unrepaired radio, the "new" radio which he sold her son, a still unsatisfied claim for $55, and the house and lot. (He was willing to let Mrs. Phillips stay on-at $10 a week rent...