“I WOULD HANG THEM”
PROFITEERING LANDLORDS.
LORD MAYOR TAKES ACTION.
(Received This Day, 1.35 a.m.) ■* LONDON, December 6.
.. “I would have many of the Birmingham landlords hanged,” said the Lord Mayor of Birmingham (Sir Percy Bower). “The landlords are profiteering so much at the expense of the homeless that I have called a special Council meeting to check their activities.”
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 49, 7 December 1940, Page 6
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