Word: rent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...program's success has resulted from its simplicity. Whenever Ekman has proof that a landlord will not accommodate Negroes, white servicemen are forbidden to lease or rent from the property owner. Since most landlords around military bases depend almost exclusively on military occupants, Ekman's decree leaves them with little choice between integration or bankruptcy. But, says Ekman, "first we try to use persuasion. I point out that a lot of the combat leaders are Negroes. If they have to live 20 or 30 miles from the base, it is uneconomic and very bad for morale...
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...claims that L. Gard Wiggins, administrative vice-president of the University, promised that the actual operators of the building could run it as they had in the past. But last July, the building's operator--the R.N. Bradley real estate firm--began requiring new tenants to put up security rent. This bond is equal to one month's rent to assure that the tenants would not damage their rooms...
Henry H. Cutler '29, the University's manager for taxes, insurance, and real estate, said yesterday that the security rent practice was begun at the suggestion of the R.N. Bradley firm. The practice was common, he noted, in all buildings which had a history of hard usage and high turnover in tenants...
None of the tenants who lived in the building when the University bought it have been charged security rent. Only the 10 to 15 tenants who moved into the building since July had to put up the deposits...