Word: renting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reason for Tammany's long sway, which has never been broken more than temporarily, is not always understood. It is generally assumed that it is a matter of graft, of efficient wardheeling, and of reciprocity from all protected interests. People forget that Tammany paid the rent for the family that was about to be evicted, that they distributed free coal during a hard winter, that last summer they gave the children of the neighborhood an outing when the city sweltered. There are those, however, who do not forget, who know that the organization which is no doubt making a little...
Clients of the Harvard Legal Aid Society, for the most part, bring their rent squabbles and bills for conditional sales, it has been recently revealed by the Society. Numerous college cases have come before them in the past few months. These cases usually have to do with petty bills and telephone company misunderstandings. The most frequent cases from those people outside of the University are those to do with the installment collectors. The crank who continually takes his smallest troubles to "law" is the most frequent visitor to the free legal service bureau...
...assuming that they will avoid paying rout. There are very few cities in which to any considerable extent money for rout is given to those in need. There are unemployed families who for three years have occupied one house or a succession of houses without paying a dollar of rent...
...structures which harmonize with the new City Hall at the centre of the civic group which includes the State Building, the Auditorium and the Public Library. For its maintenance the opera house was voted an additional annual public grant of $65.000 which the city hopes to get back in rent from the Opera Association, the Symphony and kindred organizations...
...idea of renting pictures is by no means original with Scribe Woollcott. Several years ago a number of dealers organized a sort of picture-a-month club to rent good pictures to subscribers with little wall space, rental fees to be applied on the purchase of any picture the subscriber particularly admired. The idea fell through because shipping and insurance costs wiped out the dealers' profit, damage in transshipment estranged artists. Several modern galleries are willing to rent pictures to people anxious to beautify hotel suites for a few months, or to persons of fickle taste like Mr. Woollcott...