Word: rent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...isolationist in 1940, a total-war man after Pearl Harbor. He stands foursquare with Henry against the Marshall Plan. In the Senate, he voted to keep interim aid funds for Europe down to less than half the amount ultimately granted. He fought the Taft-Hartley Act, favored continued price & rent controls...
Over & over Isacson hammered home the contention that Harry Truman had ducked the Palestine issue; that his civil-rights stand was mostly talk. Isacson wanted price control resumed, rent control continued, the Taft-Hartley Act revoked and subway fares kept at a nickel. And, most pleasing to the Communists, he was dead set against the Marshall Plan...
...normal course of Hollywood events, Cinemagnate David O. Selznick was rumored to have set the rent on his latest import, Italian Cinemactress Alida Valli. For one picture...
...Council last night authorized the sale of the booklet in its Phillips Brooks House office. In addition, the Special Committee on Housing announced its intention to consult today with vice-President Reynolds on the recent College rent hikes. The Committee has already contacted Provost Buck, Dean Bender, and Associate Dean Watson...
With the possibility of rescinding the rises almost out of the question, the Committee plans to help "hardship cases" caused by the new rent increase. Although its activities will be limited to recommendations and it will not be able to take official action, the investigating group will check cases of hardship with the University, if the University desires...