Word: rent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Washington church, which had agreed to serve as the site of a major peace rally tomorrow, has cancelled its agreement with the group. A Project official admitted last night that several large auditoriums in the city had also refused to rent their facilities. He ruefully observed that "peace is apparently not universally popular...
Rockefeller mentioned four New York offices whose jobs are to coordinate the activities of local and state agencies in fields such as urban renewal, metropolitan transportation, public works, commuter rail service, and low-rent housing...
Negro buying habits differ demonstrably from those of whites. Because they are barred from eating out in many places, notes Ebony Publisher John H. Johnson, Negroes spend more per capita for eating and drinking at home than whites do. Many Negroes have the income to rent or buy better housing than they now occupy, but discriminatory practices, overt or otherwise, often close off this avenue for spending. In search of ways to achieve status, Negroes are very conscious of quality and brand names, drive a Cadillac or Imperial if possible, and pay more than whites on the same income level...
...American writers when they danced to Moscow's tune, through the New Deal and the united front (against fascism), the Spanish Civil War (which temporarily resolved liberal doubts about Russia on the simple ground that anyone who fought fascists must somehow be good), the Moscow trials (which rent the united front and so outraged Veteran Revolutionary Max Eastman that the comrades accused him of accepting $25,000 from the British Secret Service to slander Russia), right up to the great awakening -the Hitler-Stalin pact of 1939. The great love affair was over. Extreme cruelty has been charged...
...Then You Moved On." Rent for a two-room tenement was only $1.25 a week, but there were many times when John and his mother were unable to raise that much. "You never had no regular address," says Knocko. "You just stayed in one place as long as the landlord would let you, and then you moved on. We were poor, we were poor. We're not proud of it, but we don't shun the fact that we were the poorest family in South Boston." The family stove was fueled with stray lumps of coal that Knocko...