Word: renting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...State pension law. He has won permission to raise $50,000,000 by bonds to house the State's sick, insane and criminal. He has reduced rural taxes. He has advanced a broad program for reforestation. He has put more occupational diseases under the Workman's Compensation Act, improved rent laws. President William Green of the American Federation of Labor has praised his record on labor legislation. The Governor is now engaged in a stiff upping of income taxes to supply funds for Unemployment relief...
...retired but incorrigible actress bamboozles her sympathetic landlady out of her rent, but keeps the centre of the stage...
...attraction was mutual and sudden. They married, on very little a week, soon moved into a jerrybuilt bungalow they could not really afford. Then things began to happen. Susan, to her dismay, found she was going to have a baby. Dick lost his job. Payments on the furniture, the rent, were overdue. The baby was born prematurely, stillborn. Then Manufacturer Bulgin, villain in tycoon's clothing, an unsuccessful suitor for Susan's hand, rescued them by giving Dick a job but put Susan in a dangerous spot by sending him to a distant factory and keeping him there...
Protests against the British Raj have indeed taken the form of a "no rent" campaign which is spreading throughout the United Provinces and into the realm of H. H. the Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir. In Allahabad, correspondents summarized their fears by guessing that "one hundred thousand peasants in hundreds of villages" met and swore collective oaths to pay their landlords no rent...
Promoter of this first commercial cinema church service was Baritone Rodeheaver. Enthusiastic about its pious and inspirational features, he went to Washington last week to publicize it, planned a tour of other cities. Churches may rent the service for about $15 and buy portable sound apparatus for between $400 and $500. Later, Promoter Rodeheaver will collaborate with RCA Photophone on other non-sectarian film services. He it is who chooses the speakers, none of whom receives any pay, for the ecclesiastical cinemas...