Word: rent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Scully, Petitioner, are not only weak, but based on dangerous fancy. Calling Harvard dormitories "a non-essential of education . . . conducted for profit," Mr. Scully is inaccurate on both counts. The dormitories are not run for profit. Nothing is made from the board charges, and any surplus from the rent goes to make up deficits of academic departments. It may interest Mr. Scully that no one is throwing spare gold into the Charles. Further he says that Boston University, with a registration of 21,000, has no dormitories. He forgets that while B.U. is composed almost wholly of Boston residents. Harvard...
...meeting, H.L.U. President William Bozman '46 will also report on his testimony prepared for the Legislative Committee, on the subject of a state rent control commission...
...Senate Banking and Currency Committee's hearings on rent control were brightened by Mrs. Frank Morris, a well-dressed, belligerent landlady of Dallas who wanted all controls taken off. Said she: "I am fighting for freedom for enterprise. I am fighting for my children [one daughter, three grandchildren] and for their future." Asked Chairman Charles Tobey dryly: "Oh, tell me, pretty maiden, are there any more at home like you?" Mrs. Morris: "I am an only child...
...case in point was last week's embarrassing snafu over rent controls. Word had seeped out that the Administration was leady to okay a blanket 10% raise in rents. An order to that effect had, in fact, been drawn by the Office of Temporary Controls. But the question promptly arose: Why should Harry Truman be saddled with this political liability? He wasn't. He made OTC Director Philip B. Fleming the goat, announced that he never had been in favor of a rent increase, and said the whole matter was up to Congress anyway-which it unquestionably...
Senator Charles Tobey, Republican of New Hampshire, will receive a barrage of Liberal Union sponsored telegrams today demanding the retention of full rent controls. As the Chairman of the Senate Banking and Finance Committee, Senator Tobey is in a commanding position to push pending legislation for raising rent ceilings...