Word: tenant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...moment we were the most warlike nation on earth. . . . We were not merely a people with an army-we were a people in arms. . . . Here are sheaves reaped in the harvest of death from every battlefield. . . . If each grave had a voice to tell us what its silent tenant last saw and heard on earth we might . . . hear the whole story...
...drama has, as its main excuse, the housing shortage in the nation's capital. Jean Arthur manages to look very prettily flustered as the patriotic tenant who rents half her apartment to one Benjamin Dingle (Charles Coburn). Dingle's inordinately long nose perceives that his landlady is far from satisfied with her fiance, Charles J. Pender-gast (Bruce Bennett), an effectively sickly-looking Washington bureaucrat. So Dingle sub-lets his half of the apartment to a "fine, clean-cut, high-living young man," Joe Carter (Joel McCrea). By the Hollywood law of mutual gravitation, the two are drawn together...
Rights of Man. In Tampa, a tenant asked OPA to evict his landlord, complained that he was noisy...
Bright Present. In Washington there was general agreement that Chester Davis was an excellent choice for the job. Son of an Iowa tenant farmer, he has been, successively, a farm laborer, farm owner, farm journal editor, state agricultural commissioner (Montana), farm lobbyist, and (from 1933 to 1936) head...
Eviction. In Detroit, a constable got an order to evict a tenant of complaining Landlord Joseph Deeb, moved five roomfuls of furniture out into the street, then learned the tenant had already moved out, the landlord in. Cost to Deeb: $7 to a mover to get his furniture back in the house, the regulation $25 fee to the constable for his pains...