Word: tenanted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Labor Economist Lewis Lorwin, who in 1934 went to Washington to work for the Taft family on the state papers of President William Howard Taft. Soon, he moved on. Lorwin and his wife joined the Socialist Party in 1935; with eager energy they plunged into work for the Southern Tenant Farmers Union, a bitter Socialist rival of the Communist-led Sharecroppers Union. Lorwin worked in several New Deal agencies until the war when he was an Army lieutenant assigned to the OSS. In 1946 he joined the State Department. Within two years State was checking security charges against...
Cigar Boxes. Elisabeth introduces Ernst not only to the hot quick tempo of love on a furlough but to the moral decomposition of Nazi Germany. Her gentle doctor father, informed on by a tenant in his own house, is carted off to a concentration camp, and his ashes are subsequently returned in a cigar box. Ernst charms away such horrors with a symbol, a linden tree flowering affirmatively amid the ruins of his home-town square. Filled with a deep if obscure faith in the future, he marries Elisabeth and goes back to war, only to be killed by some...
Rent Control. In York, Pa., Landlord Pietro Pennine and his wife Josephine wound up in jail after Tenant Randal Marvel complained they had collected his $11 rent by covering him with a pistol, then taking the money from his wallet...
Father's View. In Hartford, Conn., the municipal housing authority evicted Tenant Louis Maile after he kicked a hole in the kitchen wall, explained that his four children could then run from one room to another without passing in front of his living room...
Theater de Lys (capacity 299) recently hit its stride with Leslie Stevens' $10,000 hit production, Bullfight, with a three man stage crew and $25-a-week actors. Current tenant: The Threepenny Opera...