Word: rente
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mayor Thompson then shouted at the Committee that he had come to state that the U. S. is the only agency to handle flood control. "You can't bust a thousand banks in the Mississippi without putting the rent signs on Bill Thompson's town, and that goes for every other town," he shouted...
...dignity makes up for what it loses in not being paraded through the Herald sport columns on a "by-line" by the fact that he has an office of notorious hospitality in the Cambridge Savings Bank Building. If the mere possession of an office with all rent paid is not sufficient to prove Dick a thoroughly good correspondent, let it be mentioned that he possesses a Ford which has served as official conveyance of the press this fall...
...Blackshirts, the fifth year also closes with a formidable surplus on the credit side of the ledger. Some events among many entitle it to a place in the history of the Fascist regime: The victorious defense of the lira, the rent laws and the promulgation of the labor charter...
...peace they did not change their domiciles which were, for the most part, houses owned by the Terminal Coal Co. When they sytruck, the company told them to move out, presumably wanting its houses for occupancy by non-union laborers. The union men would not budge. They paid their rent. They guaranteed to continue to pay their rent. The company thereupon forbade trespassing on its property and kept the milkman, the grocer, even the doctor from visiting its unwelcome tenants without its express permission. Then the company obtained from Judge F. P. Schoonmaker of the U. S. District Court...
...reputed to have extended all around the walls near the floor, in which the faculty members of that time were represented with various canine bodies, and in active pursuit of the fleeing students. It is said that the authorities fined the men defacing the walls, and then raised the rent for the following year because the room was decorated...