Word: rent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Those who want to rent houses or apartments may register at the AVC office in Phillips Brooks House beginning today. The Housing Committee is canvassing all local landlords for living space, and whenever any space is found the committee will immediately notify students in the order in which they registered...
Southerners and Republicans also trampled on Mr. Truman's rent law. He wanted rent controls (due to expire March 31) extended two years. His House leaders were lucky to get a bill which limited control to 15 months. The measure gave state, county and city lawmakers the right to end controls altogether in their areas. The Senate Banking Committee went on from there. The Senate bill would permit an automatic 10% hike in rents within the next year and guarantee landlords a "fair return on values...
Last week Pearson had the unrepaired radio, the "new" radio which he sold her son, a still unsatisfied claim for $55, and the house and lot. (He was willing to let Mrs. Phillips stay on-at $10 a week rent...
...shown no such liberal attitude. Western currency was strictly banned. Since Berliners had more confidence in the Western than in the Eastern currency, West marks last week were worth four times as much as East marks. But people in West Berlin had to accept the East mark for wages, rent, etc. Explained a Western statement this week: "Real wages have no longer depended on a worker's ability or energy, but on the accident of whether his employer had been in a position to include a substantial proportion of West marks in his wage packet. Those inequalities have thrown...
Tuesday's editorial on Rent Control is most commendable --from the point of view of the majority of the people who are renters and who, like all normal humans, want something for nothing. However I am tired of seeing the landlord used as a scapegoat. What justice is there in holding his rents down to pre-inflation levels when he must pay every laborer twice as much for the ever-needed repairs on his property? And what about coal costs--while the administration mollycoddles the miners? Isn't building material higher? Oh, yes, all landlords were given a chance...