Word: tenant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thomas E. Dewey, Governor of New York and 1944 GOPresidential nominee, became a full-fledged farmer. The tenant-operator of "Dapplemere," his Pawling, N.Y. country place, sold the Governor all his stock and equipment, including 80 head of cattle...
...object was to make self-sustaining landowners out of experienced and dependable tenant farmers, sharecroppers and farm laborers who had no land or equipment. The tenants would be allowed to lease farm land at from $5 to $29 an acre, and pay rent from earnings. They would buy equipment and market their produce cooperatively. Eventually, the tract would be broken up into small farms to be sold to tenants on a long-term payment plan. When directors and members had proved themselves, Government supervision would stop...
...last week, in the first step toward the No. 1 Rio Farms objective, five of the now 200 tenants had applications approved for ownership of the land they had farmed under lease. Said lean, sun-bleached Tenant Nicholas Renfro, who netted $3,000 last year and plans to buy 80 acres: "I was just a one-mule-team farmer, like a thousand other guys. Now I got my own tractor and equipment, and I'm aimin' to own my own home and land. It's a wonderful thing...
...Winston Churchill last week described upright, dependable Anthony Eden to the House of Commons. It looked very much as if Churchill were promoting his choice for the next tenant of 10 Downing Street. Once known chiefly for his good looks, impeccable platitudes and his black homburg, Eden has steadily grown in stature by his sane and balanced arguments, his parliamentary and diplomatic steadiness. In the debates on Poland and Greece he was completely at ease before the House. As he spoke, he turned toward all parts of the Chamber, gestured, seldom referred to notes, discussed broad international problems with such...
...Broadway outlet for their productions, Producers Samuel Goldwyn* and David Selznick leased Manhattan's famed, 40-year-old, 1,140-seat Astor Theater from the owner-operator, City Investing Co. Major C. I. request:" Goldwyn & Selznick keep the Astor as well supplied with pictures as did former tenant Loew...