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...wrote a letter to Housing Administrator Moffett with strict injunctions that the rate of interest on mortgages issued under the Housing Act was to be 5% flat plus ½% or 1% for insurance, plus, in some cases, ½% for service charges. Basic rate for refinancing cases is to be 5??%. He declared that rates of 8% to 12% demanded on mortgages in the past were "exorbitant." ¶ Brigadier General Frank T. Hines, Administrator of Veterans' Affairs, dropped in at the White House. As he emerged he intimated that the American Legion, which fortnight ago demanded immediate cash prepayment...
Homework. The idea behind prohibiting homework in formulating the embroidery code was to prevent manufacturers from sweating wretched women for such appalling wages as 5?? an hour. Nevertheless, in Manhattan Mrs. Nenette Sabatini and Mrs. Rose Perricone had young children to support, so they applied to the State Industrial Commissioner for permits to work at home. They were denied, and the case came to court. Mrs. Sabatini said she made as much as $15 a week crocheting, Mrs. Perricone said she made $22. Domestic duties prevented them from working in a factory. The judge found that the code prohibition "appears...
...units is a concrete playground, and within each will be a garden. Each of the 1,593 apartments has wooden parquet floors, electric refrigeration, tiled bathrooms, outside windows. The elevators are self-operating. Rentals range from $22.50 for 2½ rooms on the ground floor to $87.50 for a 5??-room penthouse. Average is $12.50 a room. Knickerbocker Village will cost about $9,000,000, and with the exception of Rockefeller Center is the only large structure which Manhattanites have noticed abuilding these last two years. Last week it was ready for occupancy...
...last week's complications could be perceived without the use of a slide rule. The pound suddenly slumped 5?? to $4.91½?lowest level since last February. Up went the London gold price to a historical high of 142 shillings 4 pence (about $34.95) Down went, the Scandinavian and other currencies which are linked to sterling through the economics of world trade. Down went the yen, so that Japanese exporters would not lose the markets they have lately gained. And when the international debate about the future of sterling grew raucous, Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain either lied...
...something should be done about this picture which is disgraceful to the whole country. It was all right except for including Mrs. Roosevelt and her children. It is a disgrace to bring a woman into a thing of this kind and besides it was a lousy painting not worth 5??. There is still some chivalry in this country...