Word: rent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Administration had to stave off one crippling amendment after another. Congressman Ed Rees, a Kansas lawyer-farmer, proposed to kill all mention of low-rent housing. His amendment almost got through. A standing vote on Rees's amendment went down by one vote and Rees demanded a teller count, taken by queuing up in two groups-yes or no-and marching past the counters. Rees won then by 168-165. But on a final roll-call vote, Administration forces were able to beat Rees by a bare 209-204 vote. All through these nervous moments, Speaker Sam Rayburn...
...rent housing program, for which the Government will dole out $400 million a year-if that much is needed-for the next 40 years; 1,050,000 low-rent housing units were ordered up in the next seven years (the Senate's bill would spend only $308 million a year on 810,000 units and the House figures will undoubtedly be adjusted to that in conference). The Government will make up the difference between the artificially low rents and the actual operating costs...
...information for her intrigues and extortions. In the end, deserted and foiled, the half-crazed Signora determined to punish the entire street; she bought up every house and ordered wholesale evictions. But her fury brought on a stroke that left her a speechless idiot, while the Fascists collected the rent on her houses and hunted down young Communists like Ugo to tighten their political stranglehold...
Explained one sardonic sewersnipe: "I live here for my health. I have heart trouble and the doctor told me I should live at sea level." One sewer had a sign reading: "For Rent; Ten Cruzeiros." The "proprietor" said he rented the place at night "to couples." The police hauled 15 sewer-dwellers to jail, carted away two truckloads of makeshift furniture and cooking utensils, and unplugged the sewers...
America's Town Meeting (Tues. 8:30 p.m., ABC). "Is Our New Rent Law Fair...