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Word: tenant (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Treatment. In Milwaukee, Landlady Meta Seegar lost her eviction suit against Tenant Oscar Maas, who had annoyed her right into court with his persistent silence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 8, 1948 | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

Wisdom of Solomon. In Vastervik, Sweden, the rent control board forbade Landlord Axel William Thunberg to evict Tenant Kustaa Joeesaar for snoring, but ordered the tenant to soundproof his bedroom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 2, 1948 | 2/2/1948 | See Source »

...scheme, declaring that it would "permanently change the appearance of the south façade."* Pennsylvania's Congressman-Architect Frederick Muhlenberg rose to declare that the White House "was a heritage of the American people, not lightly or casually to be altered at the whim of any tenant." Indignant letters poured in to the Washington papers; cartoonists lampooned the plan. Crumped the New York Herald Tribune: " 'Back-porch Harry' is scarcely an appellation that a man would like to carry into a presidential campaign, even if he were impervious to the odium of violating good taste, propriety...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Back-Porch Harry | 1/26/1948 | See Source »

...Craig persisted: "The Republican comment is that you are only a temporary tenant and therefore. ..." The President suddenly turned serious, as he does when he wants to end an interchange. No President has ever been anything else, he said, and he hoped that that would continue as long as the Republic lasts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Back-Porch Harry | 1/26/1948 | See Source »

...four are members of a tenant's committee that has been investigating the alleged violatons since last October...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Students Sue for Rent Gouging at Local Apartment | 12/5/1947 | See Source »

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