Word: rente
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Marshall Musick, a frail, sad-eyed union organizer whose .home was riddled with bullets one night last February, killing his son and seriously wounding his wife, told the Committee about the strings to that. Harlan miners, said he, average about $75 per month. Of this, 15% is deducted for rent on company-owned houses, fees to company-hired physicians, contributions to company burial funds. After an additional sum has been deducted to settle his accounts at high-priced company stores, the miner gets the balance in scrip good only at those stores. If he wants cash, his scrip is discounted...
...until, with three weeks rent due at her boardinghouse, she gets a job as waitress at a party given by Producer Oliver Niles (Adolphe Menjou), does Esther encounter her hero in the flesh. By this time, like the rest of Hollywood, she is aware that Norman Maine (Fredric March) is an habitual drunkard whose dipsomaniac pranks are an intolerable nuisance or an aspect of his charm, depending on the point of view. To Esther, whom Maine accosts in the kitchen, escorts home and brings to the studio for a screen test, they are presumably the latter. To Niles...
Love from a Stranger (Trafalgar). Adapted from a play by Frank Vosper (who last month disappeared in mid-ocean), this film investigates the prelude to a quiet murder in a British country house. The afternoon she advertises her flat for rent because she has just won first prize in a Paris lottery, Carol Howard (Ann Harding) receives a prospective tenant in the person of Gerald Lovell (Basil Rathbone), whose worldly manners soon so charm her that she marries him. After a gay honeymoon in Paris, they settle down together in a Kentish cottage, paid for with funds which Gerald...
...building is $3,253,000, which is $500,000 more than the appraised value. This inflated price is justified on the ground that Hearst Magazines will thus be relieved of a burdensome lease. One of the things that make the lease burdensome is that Hearst Magazines has been paying rent not only for space it occupied itself but for space used by the Journal. Moreover, the lease is pledged under a Journal bond issue, now outstanding in the amount of $2,000,000 and personally guaranteed by William Randolph Hearst. Since this bond issue will be retired as soon...
...were unambiguously commanded to sow the sort of crops that Germany most needs. Declared General Goring: "The State will appoint a trustee to administer the affairs of a farmer who fails, after due warning, to produce needed crops. If necessary the State will take complete control of the land, rent it to another farmer and order the owner to cease farming. . . . Farm workers who attempt to leave the land will be treated as deserters...