Word: tenants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...students, gives advice on legal matters free of charge. If a case is carried to court, the bureau demands merely that its expenses in conducting the case be paid. All types of cases have been handled, except bankruptcy and admiralty. Cases of contracts, bills, and between landlord and tenant comprise most of the suits. Advice has been sought even on divorce, and once on international affairs...
According to a recent survey of the Legal Aid Board of the Law School the eternal controversy between landlord and tenant is not being allowed to lose any of its acerbity in Cambridge. Students in the College and in the Graduate schools are being sued right and left by their proprieters and are in danger of having their chattels thrown into the street. They have been confronting the Legal Aid Society with more woes than come from any other single source, and it is likely that the battle will contine to rage although the Board is making masterly efforts...
...therefore, gathered four or five men from the third year class of the Law School, hired an office in Central Square and waited. Clients flocked to the office, but unfortunately they did not bring the legal problems for which he had hoped. Instead of wage disputes, and landlord and tenant cases, the clients wished advice concerning their marital obligations and disputes. He felt that the social agencies were better equipped to handle this sort of case than were students of the Law School, and after about two years the experiment was given...
...Sheriff E. P. Campbell of Concordia said that 90% of the people in Texas and Catahoula had "not a cent in the world." Mayor Hall Allen of Tallulah said: "I don't know what" is in store for us. Ninety-eight per cent of the victims are tenant farmers and 95% are absolutely destitute." Loans. One of the arguments most used by opponents of special Congressional session for the flood district was the theory that hastily established credit organizations would take care of the flood victims' troubles. It appears the universal opinion, however, that these organizations have totally...
...physician. Rev. H. W. Foreman of Manhattan, national director of rural work for the Episcopal Church, told the Illinois men that this was the condition of all the U. S.: "The great difficulty with the rural situation at present is that many of our clergy are merely 'tenant parsons' There is just as much danger in this aspect of modern religion as there is in the problem of tenant farmers from an economic standpoint. Young men go into the country sections and do good work for two or three years as a sort of apprenticeship to moving into...