Word: renting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...weeks the Red march on Congress had been in the making. Herbert Benjamin, its Washington advance agent, had vainly sought parade permits from Vice President Curtis and Speaker Garner. His attempts to rent local quarters for his followers had been equally unsuccessful. But his failures did not halt the marchers. From Boston, Providence, New York, Albany, Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis. New Orleans, Birmingham and Philadelphia streamed a black-&-White horde of Reds, traveling in rented trucks and wheezy old cars. Their demand: $50 for every jobless citizen. One city cold-shouldered the motorcades along to the next. At Wilmington...
...subways. "The only person that rides on the subway for 5? is the fellow who don't live in New York City. Everybody else pays more than 5?, but because they only drop a nickel in the turnstile they do not realize that the rest is in their rent...
...Council points out, the great majority of the resident upperclassmen desire to live in the Houses, but the existing prices for rooms have made it difficult for them to do so. It is, therefore, especially gratifying to know that a plan has been worked out whereby the average room rent per man will be lowered and readjustments made between the different Houses to be effective beginning with the year...
This report pointed out that the average room rent in the Houses per man has been approximately $40 higher than the room rent in the college dormitories prior to the opening of the Houses, and recommended that, "because of the financial status of the average college student, the University, if it is possible financially to do so, should make every possible effort to lower the prices of rooms within the Houses...
Residents of single and double suites in Lowell and Dunster House may be disappointed to find that their rent charges have not been reduced proportionately to the cuts made for similar rooms in the 1931 Houses. The apparent discrepancy is, however, wholly justified. The five later Houses possess a large number of inexpensive multiple suites; the rents in the relatively few singles and doubles have been correspondingly high. In Lowell and Dunster, on the other hand, there are no multiple suites, and the prices of singles and doubles are consequently lower than those in the other Houses. In order that...