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...Branch, a Baptist preacher and schoolteacher, who sought the office that controls the issuing of deeds, land transfers, eviction notices, wills and mortgages. As with Gilmore in his race for sheriff, there was special satisfaction in his candidacy for Branch: his father had been thrown off a tenant farm when he was a youth. "There were no eviction papers ever issued, man. I'm going to look those records...
Chicago's changeable weather poses other problems. Mrs. Terri D'Ancone, for example, lounges abed mornings until Husband Alfie returns from walking the family poodle and brings a firsthand, down-to-earth weather report. Other tenants rely on radio weathermen or phone for a taped rundown. The height itself worries few tenants; no acrophobe would ever think of moving in. Curtains are not really necessary, although residents use them simply to produce a sense of intimacy or to screen out the early-morning sun. One female tenant, flinging open her curtains one morning before donning a robe, confronted...
...small farming community south of San Antonio, he remembers his childhood as just slightly removed from "raw frontier. I'm not trying to play the humble-beginnings record, but I studied by kerosene. We had no electricity. There were no paved roads." His father worked as a tenant farmer, a butcher and laborer before the family moved to San Antonio when Connally was ten. There, the senior Connally operated a one-vehicle bus line from San Antonio to Corpus Christi...
...than half their income for rent. ???ast Wednesday's public hearing on rent increases was the first time that anyone representing the elderly spoke out on rent control. Catherine Handley of the Committee for the elderly approached the microphone after most everyone else had spoken. A young tenant jumped up to adjust the microphone for the short grey-haired lady in a prim blue pillbox hat. She didn't really say anything different from any of the other tenants and she wasn't backed up by the rest of the Committee for the Elderly chanting or carrying signs...
...Since the Middle Ages, the common law has entitled landlords to leave most repairs to tenants. But the growth of apartment living in the U.S. has raised sharp questions about landlords who blithely ignore faulty heating, lighting and plumbing. In that spirit, a decision written by Judge J. Skelly Wright for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia empowered tenants to withhold rent if the landlord fails to keep the premises in decent condition. Now all D.C. landlords are accountable and no tenant can be evicted for using his rent as a weapon to enforce his right...