Word: rente
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London suburb, while the April rain drizzles outside. Upon finding a certain notice in the paper, she and a kindred spirit at the club develop an April hankering that is the reverse of Mr. Browning's-Oh, to be in Italy! For a few pounds they can rent a fabulous little castle on the Mediterranean. There is a thrifty counting of shillings, and at length an ecstatic leavetaking of foggy streets and captious husbands. Two noble ladies have been corralled to join them at the castle and share expenses. When the eager housewives arrive, the gentry are already firmly ensconced...
...control of the Ambassador, the New Grand Central and the Missouri theatres until Paramount went into bankruptcy. Unable to carry on alone, Warner Brothers in the course of a mortgage foreclosure lost the lease on the theatres to an operating company headed by Allen L. Snyder which offered more rent. But when the Snyder concern tried to get Warner Brothers, Paramount and RKO pictures, it found itself balked. Thereupon the Snyder company last summer complained to the Department of Justice that those companies were conspiring against it by withholding their products from its houses, that they were, in short, violating...
...that the Gates of Hell could never prevail against sound money, Clément Moret entered the eclipse of Honorary Governor after setting Paris the kind of example Paris respects. Amazingly few years ago he was living with his wife and children in a flat so modest that the rent was but 1,500 francs a year. Soon afterward great Raymond Poincaré (considered by his worst parliamentary enemies "abnormally incorruptible") declared that Finance Ministry Clerk Clément Moret was "abnormally honest," had him sent to reorganize the impoverished exchequer of reconquered Alsace-Lorraine...
Romance is the chief advertised product of Tahiti. According to French tourist agencies, Tahiti, "Pearl of the Pacific," has everything Hawaii has, and its biggest village Papeete (pop.: 7,000) is "The Paris of the South Seas." Local realtors rent tourists seaside cottages outside Papeete, complete with female cook. Any native girl found on Papeete's streets after 9 o'clock at night is given a prostitute's card and a weekly physical examination. The Tahitians themselves have no words in their language for either prostitution or love...
...have Government expenses been pared so sharply as in Belgium. Yet last week Elder Statesman Theunis, backed by two of Belgium's richest men. Minister Without Portfolio Emile Francqui (banks, copper) and Finance Minister Camille Gutt (Katanga Copper), pared 5% more off Government pensions and salaries, 50%, off rent allowances, a big slice off relief allowances to the provinces...