Word: rented
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Cambridge rent control referendum campaign suffered an all-but-fatal blow yesterday afternoon. Middlesex County Superior Court Judge Henry Leen ruled that a rent control referendum cannot appear on the City's November 4 election ballot...
Cambridge City Solicitor Philip M. Cronin said last night that Leen had dismissed a writ of mandamus petitioned by members of the Peace and Freedom Party and the Cambridge Housing convention. The writ asked the court to overturn a ruling by the Cambridge Election Commission that the rent control bill is illegal and cannot appear on the ballot...
...Rent control is a major issue in the Council campaign, and students who live off-campus are expected to hold a crucial bloc of votes on November 4. Last summer the Council defeated a rent control bill by a 5-4 vote...
Despite much public and political pressure for banning the party as undemocratic, the government has so far declined to do so, for fear it could not win in court. The squeeze on the N.P.D. has been applied in more subtle ways: many cities refuse to rent the party municipally owned halls for rallies, newspapers reject its ads, and television has all but blacked out its campaign. Preparing his alibis in advance, Von Thadden says he will appeal the election returns in court on the grounds that the N.P.D. has not been given a fair chance of presenting its case...
...their competition for new customers, officials of banks and independent credit-card companies have concocted many new ideas that go far beyond the campus. Credit cards can now be used to rent a wedding hall in Reno or to, buy an hour on a psychiatrist's couch, a can of fishing worms in San Francisco, or a tour of Washington...