Word: rent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ears. But mostly, Barry was all business, and wherever his chartered Boeing 727 jet, the Yia Bi Kin (Navajo for House in the Sky), touched down, Goldwater ripped into the Democrats. He accused them of planning to dismantle U.S. defenses, joked that the Air Force might soon need "Hertz rent-a-bombers," repeatedly attacked Lyndon Johnson for listing prosperity, justice and peace, "but not freedom," as his goals...
...protecting his dominion. He once got a local CORE group to cancel a demonstration by threatening to send a gang of girls through a CORE picket line. "You won't look very good fighting girls," he warned. And when a Harlem envoy came to Philadelphia to organize a rent strike, Moore gave the man 24 hours to get out of town. The man got. It was Moore who instituted the court battle to stop the city's famed New Year's Day Mummers Parade participants from wearing their traditional blackface. Moore won his point, but the Mummers...
...there is no room for her. Naturally, the problem is concentrated in the lower-income groups, where the father cannot make enough to support the family singlehanded. It is also acute in disheveled families where Father may be here today and gone tomorrow, leaving Mother to cope with the rent and the grocery bill...
...Cotton Club and Satchmo was at the Sunset, God was in heaven and Father Divine was in Harlem." Those were the days of speakeasies with names like Glory Hole and Basement Brownie's Coal Bed, of stompin' at the Savoy and vaudeville at the Apollo, of "rent parties" where guests paid 50? or $1 to help the host pay his rent and got all the food and drink-and sometimes sex-that they could manage. It was the time when Jazz Singer Anita O'Day told her audiences...
Relief Pets. Anger over Harlem's housing took concrete shape last fall, in rabble-rousing Jesse Gray's "rent strike." All told, Gray claimed that 4,500 tenants from 325 buildings refused to pay their rent because their landlords had failed to rout the rats, drain the swampy basements and plug the holes in the walls and ceilings. Mayor Wagner lent his support by ordering a new drive against "slumlords," but the Buildings Department, with a backlog of 250,000 complaints, is still snowed under...