Word: rente
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lindberghs this week are in Kent, in a big L-shaped, hard-to-heat house composed of an old barn and four old cottages joined together. They rent the place and three acres of ground from Novelist Victoria Sackville-West, but are giving it up this month to move to the French island of Illiec, off the north coast of Brittany. Mme Carrel, who lives most of the year on the neighboring island of St. Gildas, recently secured it for them. With the barren island went a three-story stone house of nine big rooms. Illiec provides all the seclusion...
...rental of the Canal Zone, the U. S. Government in 1904 contracted to pay the Republic of Panama $250,000 annually. When President Roosevelt knocked the U. S. dollar down to 59? in 1934, the U. S. handsomely agreed to up the annual rent to $430,000. But since the day the new rent was first due (Feb. 26, 1934), the U. S. has paid not a cent, now owes $2,150,000. Reason: The new agreement was buried in the revamped U. S.-Panama treaty, still unratified by the U. S. Senate, presumably because of the fear that other...
...about. In Listen Little Girl Munro Leaf, 32-year-old author of Ferdinand (bestselling children's book), avoids these hazards by dismissing moral and emotional considerations at the outset, tells his girls what they can expect to find in Manhattan in the way of jobs, rent, food & lodging. A profound and sympathetic student of Manhattan womanhood, Author Leaf also discusses such feminine concerns as the price of stockings and the number of pairs a girl needs, without giving his book a housewifely air, although he occasionally seems slightly embarrassed by such topics. And although he paints no lurid pictures...
...this property belongs to whites, most of them Jews, and they make it tough for Negroes to go into business in these prize areas. Leases generally have clauses forbidding Negro tenants; and if a Negro manages to wangle a lease anyway, he is apt to find his rent tripled when the lease comes up for renewal...
When the Jones Brothers started the world's only Negro-owned department store they had to buy the property to get onto 47th Street. When dapper little Frank Howell Jr. started Mae's Dress Shoppe, he was forced to pay six-and-a-half months' rent in advance. This smoldered in Negro Howell's breast and continued to as he prospered. After Marva Trotter, fiancée of Prizefighter Joe Louis, bought her trousseau from Frank Howell, four other Mae's Dress Shoppes were started by rivals eager to cash in on the publicity...