Word: tenanted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Augustus Cobb, a New York lawyer, graduated from the Law School in 1872, and when he died in 1930, he left his entire estate in trust for the benefit of his brother, Edward Benedict Cobb. The brother, as life tenant of the estate, had the benefit of it until his death, which occurred last Thanksgiving Day, and the Augustus Cobb estate was then divided into two parts, one going to six New York charities, and the other to Harvard...
Like seven other State winners in landowner and tenant classes, he had already received a check for $100 and a pedigreed Jersey bull calf. The sweepstakes prize meant that he had outstripped 27,000 other small holders and croppers in meeting the South's biggest agricultural problem: how to make the poorer farm families self-sufficient. Asked what he would do with his $600, Farmer Majure mused: "Guess I'll buy some more land to go with my 40 acres...
...Plant-to-Prosper winner: "We tore down an old outhouse and saved the roofing and flooring to build an additional room to our home. . . . We set out seven shade trees and 25 fruit trees . . . have taken better care of the hens, cows, pigs, garden and truck patches. . . ." One Missouri tenant farmer's wife was so enthusiastic she sewed "Plant-to-Prosper" on her son's basketball uniform...
Some time ago you published an article on the economic condition of many of the Southern tenant farmers, especially the Negroes. You told how one Negro had obtained a judgment against his landlord for unlawful interest charges, and how the latter stood to pay considerable damages [TIME, June 13]. You also pointed out the possible widespread significance of this judgment...
When Negro Tenant Farmer Less Taylor won a judgment against his landlord, J. W. Copeland, the case was appealed, is still pending. No other such suits in Mississippi have been reported.-ED. Clock...