Word: renting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Congress: He lives modestly on Woodland Drive, N. W., when in Washington, drives a Ford coupe to the Capitol or to Burning Tree Golf Club (average score: 100). Outside Detroit he lovingly, bitterly maintains a failing farm, which he once offered rent-free to anyone who could make it pay. He likes poker...
Pleased indeed must have been Chief Harrison with his appointment. He had resigned his ministership because he could not find for rent a suitable house for his family in Montevideo. He can now live in Washington where many a comfortable house awaits a tenant...
...opening last week Mrs. Harriman gravely explained to reporters that she had been collecting French moderns for years, that her house had become so crowded that she must either stop buying pictures or rent more rooms to hang them. Hence the Marie Harriman Gallery. Art critics, dodging nervously among socialites, were impressed. Of the 29 canvases on view, not one was unimportant. Present were such frequently reproduced works as Picasso's mustachioed Harlequin, a good Tahiti Gauguin, Renoir's Claude as a Clown in Red, Cezanne's Man with a Pipe, eight irreproachable Derains. Another beauteous young...
Negro Apartments. Last year Julius Rosenwald built the $2,700,000 Michigan Boulevard Apartments in Chicago, to be rented at cost to Negroes. The building has 425 apartments (rent: $16 per month per room), nursery schools, garden courts, recreation rooms. Last week directors met, announced the first year of operation will give Mr. Rosenwald 6% on his money. He had expected a loss...
Though Mr. Morrow was talking literally of machinery, his words were equally applicable to the effect of Prohibition on political machines, which understand themselves even less than each other. Party organizations in many a State are rent and torn by the liquor question. The Washington State Republican convention went abruptly Wet last May while the State's Republican Senator Wesley Livsey Jones was glittering most brightly as a Dry. The New York G. O. P., about to nominate a Governor, jiggled about last week in frantic uncertainty. Massachusetts Republicans last week concluded a fierce Wet-&-Dry primary fight (see page...