Word: tenants
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Case Histories: Arnold Berry, Negro field hand and tenant farmer on the Teacher Plantation near Wilson. Ark.. gets 75? a day ("Not seventy-five cents every day in the year, but seventy-five cents a day when there is something for him to do"), earns less than $200 a year, sinks annually $30 or $40 deeper in debt to the plantation store, is of course forbidden to leave the place until the debt is paid off. He considers himself lucky, however, "that he is a tenant on the Teacher Plantation instead of being a tenant on the [adjoining] Harris...
...frame duplex house without electricity or bathtub, wears cotton hose and gingham dresses, likes to haggle with grocers over not quite fresh foods. As kindly as she is money-conscious, she has been known to spend several hundred dollars for kneeling stools for her church or to send a tenant a load of wood day after she has censured him for not paying his rent...
Brian Kilmartin, bald, bony, hawk-featured tenant farmer on the hills above the village of Crom; his sons Michael and Martin, and Martin's newlywed wife Mary, are the principal characters. The story starts the year before the famine when the blight touched a tithe of the crop with the first dapplings of disaster. The damage was small that year, but it was enough to make the Kilmartins draw in their belts a little. Potatoes (dug fresh from the ground in summer, stored in fern-lined earthen pits through the winter; served boiled, with a bowlful of salt water...
...stockmarket. President Roosevelt nodded emphatically. Feelings were jittery everywhere and rightly so, he said, not only in financial circles but in homes all over the world and in every democratic government. Same afternoon, the President addressed 200 members of the Roosevelt Home Town Club on the lawn of his tenant Moses Smith, who founded the club. Said he: "World conditions are no better than they seem to be to those of us who read the newspapers. They are pretty serious. . . . It requires some planning to keep...
...holds its triennial General Convention in Cincinnati, the C. L. I. D. plans to hold a sideshow series of meetings, with speeches by such people as Socialist Norman Thomas (a Presbyterian minister), the C. I. O.'s Homer Martin (onetime Baptist preacher), Howard ("Buck") Kester of the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union (Baptist minister), Negro Lawrence Oxley of the U. S. Department of Labor, Roger Baldwin of the American Civil Liberties Union...