Word: rente
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Plan to rent old warships to South America was launched in the form of a Senate resolution by Chairman David I. Walsh of the Naval Affairs Committee who read the Senate a letter from Secretary Hull explaining it as an extension of the Roosevelt "good neighbor" policy. The proposal was prompted specifically by the request of Brazil to rent six destroyers with which to train a navy to operate ships of its own now being built. The Hull letter explained that Brazil's interest in a navy was caused by "the desire on the part of some nations...
...troops in the Suez Canal zone and British bombing planes have the right to operate freely over any part of Egypt-with Egyptian bombing planes given for the first time the privilege of operating freely over England.* The British Navy retains its permanent base at Alexandria, pays rent. But Egyptians agree to build and pay for an entire system of strategic highways fanning out from Suez, so that in a few hours British motorized land forces can speed to any part of Egypt. Only after these roads have been completed does Britain agree to withdraw her present garrisons in Egypt...
...improving the lot of mankind, the President and his Son-Secretary James broached two new ones. After consulting with Secretary Morgenthau and a committee on housing, the President told the press of a scheme to establish institutions similar to building & loan associations for that $0% of the population who rent homes. By depositing their savings in such institutions the renters would get better interest than they can get at present from banks, would thus supply funds for the building of low-cost homes to be rented back to them. In Boston, Son James, who indignantly declared it a nuisance that...
Details such as neither U. S. nor United Kingdom journalists ever cable about the Royal Family appeared last week in the Toronto Star, whose M. H. Halton went to the latest Buckingham Palace garden party. Excerpts: "I'm sure Earl Baldwin didn't rent his clothes at Moss Brothers, because his pants looked as if they'd never been pressed. ... He looked very white and very tired, and it was interesting to see him and his wife shun the royalties and walk off among the flowers. . . . The King looked well cared for and healthy. . . . Most...
Second wife: "Everything was just beginning to go well and people were beginning to get their rent and grocery bills paid and women a few new dresses when along comes this trouble...