Word: renting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...expensive apartments house Al Smith, many another who can pay for the privilege of looking out on some of the city's few trees. But the west side of the park, which has a similar view, is no slum. It, too, has fine buildings in which the annual rent of an apartment is as much as the cost of building a modest home. Such a building is the San Remo, whose services employes struck three months...
...butter, 18 to 20 loaves of bread have gone to nourish the strikers. The servants do most of the labor, Mrs. Bijur sometimes helps (see cut). To protest the banking department's failure to rehire the strikers, the Bijurs last month refused to pay rent until served with a dispossess notice. Mrs. Bijur trudged up & down four flights of stairs rather than use the elevator and condone the presence of strike breakers, some of whom have joined an A. F. of L. union. She said "the scabs" had called her bad names, she had even been told she might...
...Provo, Utah. Provo merchants had chipped in $100 to pay her way to Washington so she could ask for more WPA money to go into storekeepers' tills. Mrs. Jorgensen's husband supports her and two children on $44 a month, of which he pays $15 for rent on a single room, $18 for groceries. A Mormon, Mrs. Jorgensen said her church's famed work-for-relief system is a flop, declared an infant daughter died because of "the conditions I had to live under...
...York City's scholarly, bald-domed Deputy Mayor Henry Hastings Curran was asked to help in a drive against baldness. He replied: "Why not be bald? Nobody ever made a nickel out of his hair. We cannot sell it,* or use it, or rent it, or put it in a show window. . . . Blessings on thee, baldhead...
Here, when many months of work were about to go to naught, the University stepped in. After recanvassing the real estate agencies and finding that even Harvard University could not rent a dining hall near the Square, they began to look nearer home. Under their very eyes they found what weeks of search had failed to produce; and if one is inclined to wonder why the basement of Andover Hall was such an elusive-prize, only praise can be offered for the way in which the whole matter was finally concluded...