Word: obtaining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...narrowing the range of rents. While the larger aspects of the rent problem are not treated thoroughly, the discussion of this particular phase is able and convincing. It has become very evident that the men who can afford the most expensive rooms will not take them when other men obtain rooms only slightly less desirable for half the price. The most pressing need in the Houses has not been for the very cheap rooms but for more rooms of moderate price...
...Cuba's basic economy. He explained that President Roosevelt does not want to intervene in Cuba, wants only to give reasonable protection to U. S. lives and investments. He promised U. S. recognition as soon as a Cuban Government can "give proof of ability to maintain public order, obtain public support and meet obligations." Immensely flattered, The Boys next day sent half their members through the country making speeches to get public order and support...
...free to bid for the bankrupt properties. Farm-born Merchant McCrory, who opened his first store in Scottdale, Pa. in 1882 and who branched until he had peppered the East and South with 244 units, sold control to Merrill, Lynch & Co. two years ago. Because it could not obtain usual seasonal bank financing, the chain was placed in bankruptcy last January...
...Later in Yonkers, N. Y. sensitive John Masefield learned to abhor the Machine Age by working in a rug mill. Last week as the Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom he told Welshmen that "the world subconsciously longs for poetry but it now invents substitutes, such as speed, to obtain the excitement which poetry would give...
...making $1 do the work of $7, so after the March banking holiday Superintendent of Insurance Van Schaick clamped down restrictions which stopped the guaranteed mortgage business but which granted the companies a moratorium. They were ordered to submit plans for reorganization. Meantime they put on a campaign to obtain releases from their guarantees and the state formed New York Guaranteed Mortgage Protection Corp. When the companies' plans for reorganization were all rejected this quasi-public protective committee went to work. Last week its plans were published by Superintendent Van Schaick...