Word: extended
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Only in Washington were tenants unharried. District of Columbia rent control was set up originally under a separate law which does not expire until the end of the year. A week after the Congress approved the bill for the rest of the nation, the House had quietly voted to extend the D.C. law, without change, until March 1948. The bill contained no 15% increase for landlords, no permission to raise the rents of permanent hotel guests. Many Congressmen live in hotels...
...Housing and Rent Act of 1947. Said he: "It is clear that, insofar as the Congress is concerned, it is this bill or no rent control at all." The bill; which continues rent controls to Feb. 29, 1948, will permit "voluntary" 15% rent increases if leases are signed which extend through...
Gertrude Stein's elder brother Leo, now in his 70s, had delivered this book to the publishers before her death (TIME, Aug. 5). If she had lived, it might have provoked her to Steinesque limpidities in reply, for Leo's range of appreciations does not extend to his sister's works, nor to her enthusiasms. Their estrangement was known all over the Left Bank in the '20s, though one day as they passed on a Paris street, Gertrude so far forgot herself as to nod in recognition-and was then so overcome (so the story goes...
...cool air expected to arrive sometime early this morning will keep the mercury down in the middle seventies for at least a couple of days, but government meteorologists refused to extend their predictions through the long Fourth of July weekend. Chances are, they said, that it will be hot, but not as hot as the past few days...
Walter D. Edmonds '26, an Overseer of the University, was awarded the honorary degree of doctor of literature by Colgate University at its commencement exercises Monday "for his service to us in helping to extend our lives from the narrow present to a participation in the stress and glory of the past...