Word: squatters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ottawa, where squatter chief Franklyn E. Hanratty's Veterans' Housing League had won considerable man-in-the-street support and a measure of respectability, people took a new and harder look at his organization. The Ottawa Journal thought it saw some Communists in the membership, and said so. Ottawa's Citizen wagged a warning finger about Communist "disrupting of established order...
...Vancouver, where 150 vets had moved into the old Vancouver Hotel last January, 13 squatter families were in their second week at Little Mountain Army barracks. They petitioned Ottawa "to quit quack-quack-quacking on housing . . . start building decent low-cost housing...
Lloyd's issued the first insurance policy against squatters last week, when Greenhill & Powell, estate agents, insured their flats in Chelsea-which they had just renovated to the tune of ?23,000-against squatter damage. The terms were stiff-?75 for three months to cover up to ?5,000 damage...
...West End cinema rocked with uneasy laughter night before last when a bedraggled woman squatter babbled into a newsreel microphone that she and her old man had been living in one room in South Kensington, that another couple had just moved in with them, and that: "It was ever so public." Better-off Britons, who see such newsreels and read about squatters, have that uneasy feeling that they had when wartime evacuations suddenly washed to the surface thousands of children with lice in their hair...
British Communists reached for the leadership of Britain's Squatter Movement (TIME, Sept. 2). Into two blocks of swank Kensington flats and eight adjoining buildings they led a small army of families who have been living in crowded conditions reminiscent of Moscow. Said Communist Party headquarters: "Regardless of any official warning, we are determined to get 10,000 of our members into decent houses immediately." This week, Prime Minister Clement R. Attlee called an agitated special Cabinet meeting to consider the emergency...