Word: tenant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unbearable Tenant. In Clinton, Tenn., a landlord asked OPA for permission to evict a 300-lb. tenant before she caved in his new porch...
...Tenants reacted to all this in the patternless fashion of men making the last clutch at the lifeboat. Some cried that the whole thing was a huge bluff-an apartment owner must prove he is losing money before getting OPA permission to evict a paying tenant. Others argued that no law can keep a man in business if he wants to quit...
Olive Branch & All. In Omaha, Landlord Perfect Peace ejected Tenant John Dove for nonpayment of rent...
Home to Gene Atkins meant a wretched rural slum. His father was a sharecropper in the Hogback Mountain region, where tenant farms are rich only in ragged children, moonshine stills and Redbone hounds. The hero and his hill bride had little chance of escaping poverty. Broke, Gene Atkins was resigned to spend his $300 mustering-out pay for a stock-mule, harness, turning plow, singlefoot, geewhiz, section harrow, planter and wagon-and then sharecropping cotton on another man's land...
...resigned from the Navy in August 1941, joined Major General Claire Chennault's Flying Tigers staff as a civilian. Captured by the Japanese at Hong Kong, he posed as a working newsman, got himself repatriated on the Gripsholm. Then he rejoined Chennault as an Air Forces lieu tenant, was made a captain before the war's end. Brother Stewart, turned down by the U.S. Army because of high blood pressure, enlisted in the British Army, fought with the 16th Rifles in Africa and Italy as a machine-gun platoon commander. After the British gave him a captain...