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...city marshal of Earle, went on trial at Jonesboro before Federal Judge John E. Martineau, onetime Arkansas Governor, and a jury of twelve whites. On hand as a special representative of Attorney General Cummings, who was anxious to secure a conviction in the face of complaints from the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union against the usual calibre of Arkansas justice, was Brien McMahon, assistant U. S. attorney general in charge of the criminal division. As Planter Peacher sat sneeringly confident of acquittal, Prosecutor McMahon and his assistants presented the Government's story of peonage, 1936 Arkansas style. The story...
...last year's ploughlines. All this Dr. Tugwell classifies as prejudice and dismisses, but Congressmen at home among their constituents do not like it. In order to get more money out of Congress and to launch a new plan for lending $50,000,000 a year to help tenant farmers buy their homes, Dr. Tugwell hoped to get RA transferred to the Department of Agriculture. Only flaw in the plan was that Secretary of Agriculture Wallace did not want to take the responsibility of turning Dreamer Tugwell loose with so much money...
...whom the President bestowed his amiable, noncommittal smile, popped into the headlines again next day with a plan for something even closer to his heart. He wants to spend $50,000,000 per year for at least ten years buying farms which would be turned over to upstanding tenant farmers, including Southern sharecroppers, with 40 years to pay. His proposal would be presented, explained polite Dr. Tugwell, only if Congress asked him for it. But he felt sure it would. Already, he revealed, RA had taken options on 1,000 good Southern farms as a starter...
...Tenant In San Francisco, while rowing over rent payments with Grocer Daniel Del Carlo, Landlord George Figone wagged his thumb in his tenant's face, had it completely bitten...
...Dunbar project might nevertheless have developed into a high-toned, white-collar colony of black tenant-owners. Leases were at first taken for three years, during which rental payments covered purchases of stock in the Dunbar corporation. At the end of 22 years-the period set for amortization of the Rockefeller mortgage- the amount of stock owned by each tenant was to be equivalent to the value of his apartment, and the whole block of buildings would be cooperatively owned. Depression, however, ruined that scheme. Unemployed tenants were allowed to pay rent out of their stock accumulations, but otherwise...