Word: renting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Suddenly last week the silence and serenity were rent by a voice not heard in New York since it was stilled by the death of the 72nd Congress last March. Short, swart, muscular Fiorello Henry La Guardia, insurgent Republican from Manhattan's Italian district who lost his House seat to a Tammany man in the Roosevelt landslide, raised his voice loudly to demand public support for one of the most startling coalition tickets ever proposed...
...reduce their output. He could rent an unlimited amount of farm land to take it out of production. He could let cotton growers speculate on a rising market by giving them free options on government cotton in return for reduced acreage. He could issue $2,000,000,000 worth of Federal Land Bank bonds to refinance farm mortgages at 4½%. He could compel the Federal Reserve to absorb $3,000,000,000 worth of U. S. securities. He could issue $3,000,000,000 worth of paper money, backed only by the good name...
...police feel that it would help the situation a great deal if parking places could be provided for the cars of those students who can not afford to pay garage rent. At present the only parking space available for students of the University is Jarvis Street, which runs behind the Law School, connecting Massachusetts Avenue and Oxford Street. There are accommodations for not over 100 cars there and University officials will not allow overnight parking. The Business School has a parking place suitable for between two and three hundred cars, but it is restricted to the cars of the students...
There is every reason for applicants to attempt to rent rooms of low price as long as the University is making a profit on the Houses; this, however, they are not doing. Last year the net deficit to the University on the account of the Houses was something over $53,000; next year, it will be somewhat larger because of the reduction in rents. In view of this, a partial solution to the problem is obvious, if a trifle Utopian: those who can afford more than the maximum set down on their applications should signify that capability. The other side...
Agents for Victor Emanuel, horsey Manhattan broker, aftef being repeatedly eluded, seized the Rolls-Royce coupe of John Barry Ryan, eccentric son of the late Financier Thomas Fortune Ryan, in part satisfaction of a judgment of $37,353.46 obtained by Mr. Emanuel for rent on a piece of la>nd near Belmont Park racetrack where Mr. Ryan had thought of starting a racing stable. The Pennsylvania Railroad last week sued Mr. Ryan for $6,000 for parking charges on his private car in its Long Island city yards. Minnesota's Representative Francis Henry Shoemaker, truculent Farmer-Laborite, listened...