Word: rent-control
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...been an acrimonious week. The last hope of cooperation between the Both Congress and the President seemed to have run out. Harry Truman had already vetoed five bills. Early in the week he had signed the rent-control bill (TIME, July 7), but with gall in the ink: "I have chosen the lesser of two evils . . . this legislation marks a backward step in our efforts to protect tenants against unjustified rent increases. ... It is unthinkable that the Congress would actually take steps to make more difficult or even impossible the efficient administration of the Government's present activities relating...
...Approved a rent-control amendment sponsored by New Jersey's Albert Hawkes (and backed by the real-estate lobby) to allow landlords and tenants "voluntarily and in good faith" to agree on a lease calling for 15% rent increase, provided it extended to or beyond Dec. 31, 1948. Democrats objected bitterly that tenants would have to sign or face even higher demands and possible eviction early next year when all controls are scheduled to expire...
...midst of the stormy sessions of Congress on price control a few months ago even the anti OPA forces, except for a few irreconcilable, rallied to the defense of the sacred cow of the American public: rent-control. But today, with the political picture of the House and Senate changed, more and more unofficial Washington reports making their insidious way into newspaper columns tell the story of coming action by Congress which will wreek or completely abolish this system. Whether it be the never-say-die lobbying of the real estate interests or the fact that the Republicans...
...inflation measures, by default. Not only should every effort be made on the part of an alerted citizenry to urge their Congressmen not to do away with this control, but state legislatures and officials should also be impressed by the necessity of passing state laws governing the question of rent-control. In this way, the activities of a few selfish men in our midst will be frustrated. And in this whole problem, the Republican party has the responsibility for which it has been asking American voters for fourteen years...
Call the OPA! In St. Joseph, Mo., the OPA rent-control office was 7½ months behind with its rent...