Word: tenant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pawling in Dutchess County, New York. GOP-Hopeful Dewey thus became, like his 35-mile-away neighbor, Franklin Roosevelt, a titular constituent of GOP-Hopeful Hamilton Fish. Dewey farm facts: price, $30,300 ($3,000 down); a 175-year-old farmhouse, with front porch suitable for campaign purposes; two tenant houses, 70 head of cattle...
...shallow, wandering Brazos that flows from dusty New Mexico to the grey waters of the Gulf near Galveston Bay. In little patches hanging on the hillsides of Tennessee; in the red soil of Georgia; in big plantations along the Black Warrior and Coosa in Alabama, in poverty-stricken tenant farms and rundown sharecropping holdings, in syndicate-owned plantations bigger than collective farms, in 25,000,000 acres of the U. S. cotton grew to produce 11,412,000 bales, almost 50% of the world's total...
...BUTLER President Southern Tenant Farmers Union Memphis, Tenn...
...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't lost a case...
...farm tenant program...