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...they could subvert the rest of India. They already had 46 seats, only seven fewer than the Congress Party, in the state assembly. Andhra is their kind of breeding ground: a place of extreme and uncaring wealth, and of miserable poverty. In Andhra, four in every ten people are tenant farmers and landless agricultural laborers, susceptible to Communist promises...
Radcliffe's gifts from the Barbour estate now total $1,364,000, since it received a bequest of $711,000 when Barbour died in 1925. His daughter, Mrs. Mary Barbour Blair, life tenant for the estate, died in April...
...Health, Dr. Baumgartner had publicly criticized a $50 fine, levied on a careless landlord by Magistrate Milton Solomon. As a result, she was summoned to court to face a possible contempt charge. The landlord concerned was fined when a faulty gas heater he owned caused the death of a tenant. Dr. Baumgartner, terming the fine "wholly inadequate," was advised by magistrate Solomon to "apply herself to her own duties...
...friend of mine took in colored, and her neighbors stopped talking to her," explained one. In other cities, West Indians often were told on the telephone that they could have a room but were refused it when they arrived and the landlady saw the color of their skin. A tenant of an expensive Park Lane apartment arranged to sublet it to the young, Cambridge-educated Kabaka of Buganda, then was refused permission by the apartment owner. The Negro players of Anna Lucasta and Porgy and Bess had no trouble obtaining rooms in the best hotels. But when they settled down...
...George Christopher in Missouri and Torbert Mac-Donald in Massachusetts seem almost fashioned by fate to win in their widely disparate districts. Christopher, who has nine children, is running against Republican Jeffrey Hillelson in Missouri's Fourth District. The farm vote is decisive there, and Christopher was a tenant farmer for 21 years before scraping together enough money to make a down payment on his own place. Even the elements have conspired against Hillelson. Says Christopher: "We've been plagued by one year of flood, three years of drought and two years of Benson...