Word: rente
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reported that I had engaged Miss Muriel Sharp to take the place of Lady Diana Manners, who is to retire from The Miracle. Miss Sharp is the young lady who, in April, 1923, created a sensation by suing Clendennin J. Ryan, son of Thomas Fortune Ryan, for $500 room rent...
...third one of that name to be lord of Segelfoss Manor. His grandfather had founded the estate and his father had maintained it. But Lieutenant Willatz Holmsen has none of the qualities to continue this work. He is proud, for one thing. If a tenant does not pay his rent, he will not ask for it. People might think he needed the money. If a demand is made upon him, he will accede to it rather than admit even to himself that he cannot afford it. Then, too, he has a German wife who does not know that money...
...Single Tax principles of Henry George* were again affirmed in the Party's platform. Under the Single Tax program, the Government would assume practical ownership of all land. The Government would be supported by one tax alone, the tax for the use of land-in other words, rent...
...including seafaring, elopement, printing, journalism. In 1879 he published his most famous work, Progress and Poverty, which sold by millions and was translated into several languages. He toured Ireland, England, Australia for his cause-a single tax, a tax that would support all government by consuming all the economic rent of the land. The slogan of the Single Tax Party was at one time: "We Want the Earth...
...motion granting powers of decree upon the Government: For the Government, 253; against, 16; whole Left Bloc abstained. The Radicals then raised the bugaboo of the votes not making a quorum and cries of "Resign" rent the air from the Left. The President of the Chamber ruled that a quorum was present and that the vote was in order...