Word: rent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...third time, he for the second; in Montecito, Calif. Her first was Cinedirector Wesley Ruggles, her second Tinplate Heir Dan Topping (now the husband of Skater Sonja Henie). One wedding present: just before the ceremony, a process server handed her a summons in a $2,100 suit for back rent and legal fees...
...Extended rent ceilings to the entire country...
Through the Looking Glass. In San Diego, Federal Rent Director John Arvin got a complaint from a tenant that his place was worth more than the rent ceiling...
Poverty is India's curse-"rent and taxes usually consume more than half the peasant's income, and most of the rest goes in payments to the moneylenders who frequently charge up to 100% interest...
...Five rent-control cases, which went into special three-judge Federal courts because they involved constitutionality, have been fought through successfully by tough little Talbot Smith, OPA rent lawyer. Two of these cases were in South Bend, two in Mobile, one in Wichita-but though widely separated on the map, all the cases were curiously alike in their defense-arguing that the act delegated legislative powers to a Governmental agency which should be exercised specifically by Congress. OPA's Lawyer Brunson MacChesney, chief of the compliance section, thinks the similarity no coincidence, believes there exists an organized resistance...