Word: renting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week jobless hundreds, led by Reds, paraded to the City Hall, demanded municipal relief from Mayor Stump. They asked that everybody in town be given $15 per week plus $2 per week per dependent plus free rent, free gas, free electricity. Funds, they thought, might be raised by a local tax on incomes of $5.000 and up. Mayor Stump ushered the leaders into his office, where they harangued him thus: ". . . You who call yourself a Socialist, must realize the workers are creators of all commodities and yet the workers are starving...
...make our situation worse and most unbearable, there comes from "Cuba's Mussolini" this new Tax Law that levies every conceivable product, rent and income with an absurd percentage. If such law is finally enacted (was passed by the Cuban Senate tn three hours' time without study or discussion), it shall mean our FINISH for good. God have mercy on us and may be lenient with Machado when his last moment comes...
Governor Pinchot proposed a substitute plan for industrial police protection: to have the State pick, train and direct the officers, rent them to the companies in time of disturbance. Civil libertarians pointed out that under this plan all the taxpayers would have to pay for the officers until they were called out by an industrial concern; that persons injured by them would have redress against neither State nor private company, that the establishment of such a system would put the commonwealth in the position of merchandising police protection...
...Trench Rent...
Sirs : I have heard recently from two different and quite authoritative sources that in settling the War Reparations Debts, France has charged the U. S. rent for the trench space the American troops occupied in 1917-18. Can you tell me if this has any foundation in fact ? FRANCIS H. HOYT Montclair, N. J. Ridiculous...