Word: rented
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...secretary's desk, and before he could stop himself, he had read enough to get very angry at Rivera's un-revolutionary and disloyal words. Trotsky made some remarks about Rivera. Rivera found the remarks "unacceptable." Trotsky dispatched a friend to Rivera with 200 pesos ($40) as rent, so as to be free of obligation. Without indicating whether he thought that was enough rent for a two-year stay, Rivera handed the cash to a Marxist magazine, Cleve. Trotsky felt snubbed. Last week the two men came to a parting of the ways: Léon Trotsky announced...
According to Evans, Owner Odell made a practice of offering tenants of Pacific States Savings & Loan Co. properties as much as 20% reductions in their rents if they paid them through Pacific States Auxiliary Corp., another wholly-owned subsidiary of State Guaranty Corp. P. S. Auxiliary meanwhile bought P. S. Savings & Loan certificates in the open market at about 55? on the dollar, turned them over to P. S. Savings & Loan in lieu of the rent due. If carried through, this smart practice could have enabled Odell to buy in all the certificates, leaving himself owner of all the company...
Then a new problem arose. Unless he paid the safe deposit rent regularly, the company would open the box and find the bombs. Having no key, he could not remove them in secret. The price of safety was $10 box rent annually. So for 21 years he paid blackmail to the devil in cash. Even so his secret was not safe. This winter the safe deposit company decided to move. He could do nothing. So finally Reinhold Faust's box was duly opened. Having heard this story, Municipal Court Judge Matthew D. Hartigan freed Reinhold Faust...
...last year) and Herald & Examiner. Badgered by the Guild strike (which, however, appeared near settlement last week), the Herex has lost $500,000 in advertising since December. For years the Herex has been able to pay interest on its bonds only because it collects $750,000 a year rent from the American. But its Sunday edition sells 1,000,000 American Weeklies. Joe Connolly is working desperately to save Chicago for Hearst, and his success or failure may determine whether Hearst remains a national publisher of newspapers...
Under the 1912 agreement, retroactive to 1908, the University undertook to pay to the city as "rent" on land along the Charles now occupied by some of the Houses, an annual sum of $2,400 in perpetuity...