Word: renting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...money is rented, WHO ought to pay the rent; the man who has the money when the rent falls due, or someone who hasn...
...last week Try. Narvesen's three-month-old "People's University" had 2,615 enthusiastic students, 71 teachers. The students paid nothing for their schooling and the teachers received nothing for their instruction. Founder Narvesen had just added a twenty-first building to his rent-free campus and ten more courses, each complete with a slogan, to the 58 he started last October. Lansingites were proud as peacocks and Michigan's State Department of Instruction was forming a special division to promote the Lansing plan throughout the State...
...blot off the walls of Rockefeller Center the Communistic murals of Artist Diego Rivera. He doled out prizes to Rockefeller Center workmen. He was tutored in showmanship by Samuel ("Roxy") Rothafel. He grappled the problem of populating his father's vast acres of office space with rent-paying tenants. And as an unofficial renting agent, he seemed to be an indisputable success...
While an interested crowd gathered, some one telephoned the police, and Patrolman McGinty answered the call to duty. With quick efficiency he gathered the animal in his arms--then the trouble started. Bawl on bawl rent the air; wildly the calf waved his spindly legs. Frantically the officer clutched his burden to his bosom. It was no use; there are limits to human ability. With a grant of relief Mr. McGinty dropped the ungrateful creature. "This is a two-man job," he decided...
...will investors hereafter give real estate in their list of investments, It may be that the existence of a machinery of exchange, the readiness of the federal government to guarantee interest and principal on mortgages to be changed for those on which there has been difficulty in paying the rent or interest, will have an influence in strengthening real estate finance...