Word: rent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...protest petition circulated. Ninety-six families refused to pay rent unless the town council backed down. But the council stood firm. "We are not submitting to mob rule," said one councilor. "These colored people are with us, and we must integrate them." Agreed another: "We have a moral as well as a legal obligation to house this family...
Heathen Rites. Last week there were signs that her neighbors were beginning to understand how badly they had let the side down. When the council threatened to evict the families who refused to pay their rent, all 96 of the defaulters capitulated. "Everyone says the Mohammeds are clean," mused a tenant, "and we all know some whites are dirty." "It would be horrid not to say good morning," blurted her friend...
...capital of Hué, but quit in a huff when the French, interfering constantly in the affairs of the court, decided to depose the Emperor. Penniless ("We did not even have enough to pay for school," recalls Diem), Kha resigned himself to life as a farmer, borrowed enough money to rent some rice fields from neighbors, who were awed at the thought of an aristocrat and his family working beside them in the paddy fields...
...young Negroes are frustrated by a double burden. They are unschooled, unskilled and, as a result, unemployable in today's tight labor market. And with more and more Negroes moving up from the South, they have been jammed together in steamy ghettos because white landlords elsewhere will not rent to Negroes...
...tough new 13-point code aimed at stopping relief chiseling. Among the code's provisions: a three-month limitation on relief payments, except for the physically handicapped and the aged; unmarried mothers who bore any more illegitimate children would be cut off from assistance; whenever possible, food and rent vouchers would be issued instead of cash; able-bodied males on relief would have to work 40 hours each week for the city building-maintenance department; newcomers who settled in Newburgh without specific job offers would be limited to one week of relief payments...