Word: tenants
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...myself am one of those who as a planter of cotton has suffered from the absurdly low prices of the past few years," said Farmer Roosevelt, referring to small tenant plantings in past years on his farm near Warm Springs, Ga. (The President has no cotton this year.) "What I am concerned about, and what every other cotton grower ought to think about, is the price of cotton next year if cotton acreage is not reduced...
...Dallas, Mrs. Banks Upshaw won a $100 prize for a tomato-can bird house submitted in a national contest, put the bird house in her yard, waited a year for a tenant, never...
...will open a school for boys. He has acquired "Oakington," the 550-acre estate of the late Commodore Leonard Richards on Chesapeake Bay near Aberdeen, Md. Designed by Stanford White, it contains 25 rooms and a ballroom. Adjacent are a model farm, a garden with venerable boxwood, enough tenant houses for 100 boys and faculty members. The school will be "progressive," carry learning-by-doing to its extreme. Grey-haired at 49, Major Garey talks of his plans, sometimes dreamily with closed eyes, sometimes in dynamic barks. Says...
...fine home in one of the city's best residential districts. Before a prospective renter could move in, several unemployed families had taken squatters' possession of the house. Hundreds of such squatters are scattered through Seattle apartments and houses. Court sympathies are with the cashless tenant, against the landlord who wants to evict or foreclose...
...view, the undergraduate has no grounds for complaint. The University owns his room; the tenancy contract stipulates no guarantee against search. And if there were desperate need for such a general search, if it were carried on by an officer of the University in the presence of the tenant there could be no justifiable ground for any objection. But the example of other Houses demonstrates that lost books can be successfully recovered without recourse to the general search. It is, furthermore, inexcusable to permit irresponsible undergraduates covertly to ransack a fellow House member's quarters. To innocent tenants such...