Word: rente
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Adman Don Francisco of Lord & Thomas (who two years ago waged a successful fight to defeat Upton Sinclair for Governor) and launched a desperate campaign to defeat the tax. Listing chain stores as paying almost $7,000,000 a year in taxes, paying almost $9,000,000 in rent, saving California consumers $14,000,000 a year by underselling independents 10%, purchasing $250,000,000 a year of California fruit and other products, almost half of which was shipped out of the state, the chains sloganed "22 is a tax on You." Most pretentious piece of chain propaganda began...
Tenant In San Francisco, while rowing over rent payments with Grocer Daniel Del Carlo, Landlord George Figone wagged his thumb in his tenant's face, had it completely bitten...
...Republican Party is to capitalize the mistakes of its opponents, it must have a refurbished philosophy and a youthful leadership. The unweildy, amorphous mass of New Dealers are, at some point, going to be rent over weighting the scales in favor of labor, over the tax on corporation's profits, the Social Security Act, over the probability or actuality of vicious inflation. When this time comes, the Republicans must be prepared to assume the role of aggressive leadership. Therefore it is necessary to begin now, not a few months before Sovember, 1940, in the great task of rebuilding a party...
...chests. Last week in Washington the Clerk of the House made public the official reports of campaign receipts & expenditures, up to within a fortnight of the election. With these and other facts published last week voters could get some idea of how much it costs to live four years rent free in the White House...
Jewish real estate speculators who bought up all nearby leases the moment they heard Mrs. Simpson had taken the house at No. 16 Cumberland Terrace for the winter (TIME, Sept. 14) had already begun to clean up. They were charging and getting nearly twice the rent previously paid for nearby houses as London swanksters last week tried to establish themselves as near as possible to the favorite. Her house happens to be on Crown property, although Mrs. Simpson's sublease is twice removed from King Edward, and this fact last week gave London Bobbies an excuse for telling citizens...