Word: renter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years they have been organized in a self-helping Unemployed Citizens League of high political potency. Municipally-owned public utilities furnish free light and water to thousands. Lately a mortgage company fixed up a fine home in one of the city's best residential districts. Before a prospective renter could move in, several unemployed families had taken squatters' possession of the house. Hundreds of such squatters are scattered through Seattle apartments and houses. Court sympathies are with the cashless tenant, against the landlord who wants to evict or foreclose...
...option at a higher price is given for the second year. But unlike landlords in other cities, Manhattan owners thus far have insisted on leases, have made few month-to-month arrangements. Because the average apartment house in the city is not much better than 85% rented, many a renter planned to wait until after Oct. 1, confident of being able to hammer out a bargain...
...From Mobile, Memphis, Little Rock, Dallas, Galveston the exuberance spread through the highways & byways out into the hot, rich fields of ripening cotton. Most of this year's crop is still to be picked. Profits from the rally will go into the pockets of all growers from the humble renter to the big plantation owner. Anderson Clayton & Co., big Houston brokers, believe that most planters were unable to pledge their crops at local stores or for bank loans, will thus be able to sell for cash. Though little of last year's 13,000,000-bale carryover is owned...
...City of Paris, but to the State. It is the duty of the Senate, which meets in Marie's palace, to decide whether pink or orange dahlias shall be planted in the garden beds, who shall sell gaufres (waffles) and lemonade, and whether or not the renter of toy boats shall be provided with a burglarproof shed.* A month ago, therefore, contestants for the Guignol concession, vacant since M. Brioché's death, were solemnly called before the Bar of the Senate. Five applied, three defaulted, only two were heard. At the last minute the competitive performance...
Calvin Coolidge was assessed $962 on his new home "The Beeches." It was the first Northampton (Mass.) realty tax he has paid. For 25 years he was a renter...