Word: rent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unhappy 1,500: "Pay day is postponed until further notice." That would also apply to Senators, but not to Congressmen, who had already drawn their monthly checks. But members of both houses were cheered to hear that the Senate's District Committee agreed with the House: the 15% rent increase which Congress had voted for the nation would not be permitted in Washington...
...sponsor of the national rent-control law, he had favored a "voluntary" 15% provision for the rest of the country. As a tenant of the Westchester Apartments, he and several other Senators were fighting a 17½% rent hike proposed by their landlord. The country's tenants would be watching Buck...
Everybody Else but Me. Only in Washington were tenants unharried. District of Columbia rent control was set up originally under a separate law which does not expire until the end of the year. A week after the Congress approved the bill for the rest of the nation, the House had quietly voted to extend the D.C. law, without change, until March 1948. The bill contained no 15% increase for landlords, no permission to raise the rents of permanent hotel guests. Many Congressmen live in hotels...
Apartment landlords seemed to have misunderstood the "voluntary" character of the 15% rent hike authorized by the law. Tenants were put under pressure to sign leases with the 15% boost. After getting a letter from his landlord suggesting a 15% increase, an Atlanta Constitution editorial writer wrote: "Oh, it's all very voluntary of course. I can either agree to the increase or adjust myself to life in a tree. You can't bluff me, I should have said, it's a free country. I'm a citizen, I know my rights. O.K., I said, where...
...days after he leased a five-room, $150-a-month Manhattan apartment, Student Benjamin Chilman, 19, advertised it for rent, collected $6,500 in advance from seven eager sublessees, gave each a phony key and told them all they could move in on the same day. Thanks to a suspicious eighth tenant, police moved in instead...