Word: tenanted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dunbar project might nevertheless have developed into a high-toned, white-collar colony of black tenant-owners. Leases were at first taken for three years, during which rental payments covered purchases of stock in the Dunbar corporation. At the end of 22 years-the period set for amortization of the Rockefeller mortgage- the amount of stock owned by each tenant was to be equivalent to the value of his apartment, and the whole block of buildings would be cooperatively owned. Depression, however, ruined that scheme. Unemployed tenants were allowed to pay rent out of their stock accumulations, but otherwise...
...factor in the Fascist cause because it owns approximately one fourth of all the land in Spain. It is because of this condition that we find Spanish peasantry pillaging churches in much the same manner that French revolutionaries burned the homes of the wealthy nobility. The same situation of tenant-farming that we have in the South, exists in Spain under far more extreme circumstances...
...anything Manila's communications with the rest of Luzon were cut. For two days there was fighting. Sixty people were killed before a radical group, the Sakdalistas, whose leader Benigno Ramos directed the uprising from his exile in Tokyo, was finally suppressed. Underfed workers and poverty-stricken tenant farmers continued to listen eagerly to Sakdalista and Communist agitators. Recently, however, the signs of discontent seemed to have ebbed...
...ever comes, it will behoove us to do some serious thinking about the human consequences of these machines. I heard a man familiar with the South say recently that the first effects of the development of an efficient cotton picker might be the displacement of over half a million tenant families...
...endorsement of the company union, but at least it does not now hold that a union organizer is 'outside interference'. . . . The principle he has now stated would seem to recognize the right of the Committee on Industrial Organization to carry on the steel campaign and the Southern Tenant Farmers Union to organize the sharecroppers and field-workers in Arkansas without being subject to the tyranny of local sheriffs...