Word: renting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...neat bungalow on the Stanford University campus near Palo Alto, Calif., Mrs. Julia M. Place, a real estate agent, drove one of her clients last Memorial Day. She had heard that the house was for rent. She rang the doorbell, waited. When no one came she went around to the back yard, found a black-haired young man stripped to the waist bending over a bonfire. He said his name was Lamson and that he owned the house. ''There was nothing unusual in his actions or speech," said Mrs. Place afterwards. "He asked me to come...
...Blenheim, Britain's sift in 1704 to the great first Duke, the Marlboroughs pay annual rent to George V of a banner emblazoned with three "flower-de-luces" (fleur...
Amid storms of laughter signs were hung on the Palace door reading "Vacant" and "For Rent." Thousands of mobsters, unable to crowd indoors, tore up palm fronds in the Palace gardens, marched off waving them in triumph. Some stopped at the U. S. Embassy to cheer Ambassador Welles who promised "continued mediation " declared that "Cubans are solving their own problems," begged for "control and calm...
...court action brought by the receiver for Chicago's Drake Hotel to oust the founder's sons, John & Tracy Drake, from their rent-free nine-room suites (TIME, June 19): a court order for the Drakes to pack up and move. The Drakes packed up and moved off-the Tracy Drakes on a motor trip, the John Drakes to a Sheridan Road apartment...
...colony "as a refuge from high French prices and the depreciated dollar." Socialite colonists would purchase all their necessary luxuries on a co-operative basis. Reported ready to join the colony were Mme Jacques Balsan, the onetime Consuelo Vanderbilt, and Frank Jay Gould, who was forced last year to rent his famed Riviera casinos to a French syndicate at a reputed loss...