Word: tenanted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cabin in the Cotton (First National) is a serious drama of the South's cotton belt, full of violence undramatically organized. As the poor tenant farmers' emancipator, Richard Barthelmess lifts his shining face toward a new day when landlords and tenants will "co-operate." Out of Henry Harrison Kroll's novel, able Southern Playwright Paul Green (In Abraham's Bosom, The House of Connelly) has sneaked into the cinema a good playwright's impartiality. The philosophy of the picture is that the rich are bad and the poor are bad, but the rich are bad because nobody has told them...
...Nation for Aug. 17 appeared the following advertisement: "TO LET, on club property adjacent to a large nudist park, a five-room stone bungalow, completely and attractively furnished. Tenant or lessee must be qualified for, and desire, membership in the nudist club which owns the large wooded, surrounding estate, distance two and one-half hours by train from New York City...
...fourth of the cases handled by the Bureau are student cases. Automobile accidents are the chief source of student business, although landlord and tenant cases as well as unpaid bills to merchants constitute a large number of cases. One student attempted to use a tutoring bureau for not refunding his money after he had failed an examination for which the bureau had tutored him. All sensible cases, regardless of the difficulty, are handled by the Bureau, with remarkably few losses. The only criminal cases handled are those in which students are involved in minor charges. Domestic relations cases where...
Landlord and tenant cases provide the principal source of outside work. Although many trivial and amusing cases come to the attention of the Bureau, much valuable service has also been rendered. In the case of a man who was penniless and had all his property taken away from him by his landlady, the Bureau took the case and got a decision from the court to the effect that a boarding house must house at least five members not related to the proprietor. As a result all the property was returned to the rightful owner...
...year's first auction. A big, one-story frame building, covered with sheet metal, the "floor"' is a store room where buyers can see the actual lots of tobacco they buy, while each seller plainly hears what his neighbor gets for his crop. Most tobacco growers are tenant farmers. Their whole living for the next year is the cash they get at the auctions. Quiet and softspoken, the farmers at Owensboro listened to the auctioneer's jargon as last week's sale began.* The farmers understood this queer, rapid language perfectly; the quiet was short-lived...