Word: rente
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years-the period set for amortization of the Rockefeller mortgage- the amount of stock owned by each tenant was to be equivalent to the value of his apartment, and the whole block of buildings would be cooperatively owned. Depression, however, ruined that scheme. Unemployed tenants were allowed to pay rent out of their stock accumulations, but otherwise the financial set-up was as inflexible as the usual real-estate capitalization. No matter what shift was adopted, fixed charges could not be met. Only 16 tenants are still purchasing their apartments on the original co-operative plan. These will be paid...
...than last year, members of the U. S. Building & Loan League, in convention at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, made what, for them, was a fine concession to Public Housing. They nodded righteous approval to a report which suggested: "If a substantial number of families cannot pay an economic rent, we recommend that the Government extend rent relief or rent subsidy, rather than follow the course of building and permanently renting to a group of citizens public accommodations...
...able to offer all this for only $1. Because that's all it will cost. You send your check to the "Register," Box 342, Cambridge and back comes the book, all of which has a slightly theatrical sound, and just goes to show that people really do rent post office boxes in Cambridge
...Find out abt rent-rebellion in N. Y. state...
...front of him, told him how much his mother loved him, and walked away. When she came back, he had taken it.) She jolted dreamy Professor Paul Ward out of his many irresponsibilities, until he soon became dean of his department. She got the Ward's rent reduced, enlivened their home life, nursed their children, corrected their weaknesses and, after their success, prevented infidelity on the part of the parents and selfishness on the part of the children that constituted the main hazard of their triumph...