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...tenant farmer in Jefferson County was unable, because of old age and illness, to work out his crop. A physician prescribed for his ailment, but the man could not buy the medicine, and no relief agency would supply it. A four-year-old girl in the family died at the end of the year of anemia. The tenant moved several miles away to another farm, but after several weeks the landowner decided that he was too old and ill to work a crop on a tenant-farmer basis, or on any other basis, and he was evicted...
...household goods were carried to the land-limits and deposited by the side of the road. Another tenant took the goods under shelter, and the landowner gave notice that if they were not removed from his land, he would come in to the house and burn them...
...aids or abets any such act, or who procures another so to expose his person ... or who as owner, manager, lessee, director, promoter or agent, or in any other capacity, hires, leases or permits the land, building or premises of which he is the owner, lessee or tenant, or over which he has control, to be used for any such purposes, is guilty of a misdemeanor...
Last week Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward lay on the tenants' table in Apartment 4 C. The chief tenant was Eugene John Reed, 47, who was once a partner in an investment banking house in Denver. His co-tenants were Chester A. Arthur Jr.,* 33-year-old grandson of the 21st President of the U. S., and Dunham Thorp, onetime editor of a literary magazine in California. All three had taken up residence in Greenwich Village with a small table, some wicker chairs, a few cots. Thus did Utopia move East. Three years ago Mr. Reed left...
...East 65th St., Manhattan, where painters were freshening the iron fence and balconies of Franklin Roosevelt's town house,* a sign was last week hung out reading "For Rent, Alfred E. Schermerhorn, Inc." An enterprising reporter, posing as a possible tenant, had the real estate agent take him through the building's 14 rooms and five baths, was told that the rental asked was $6,000 a year, that the oil burning furnace in the basement would not cost more than $800 a year to operate, that the electricity bill would not run over $25 a month, that...