Word: renting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Yale took him back with open arms. It made him Kent Professor of Law, supplied him with an enormous chair to hold his 340 Ibs. In the Taft Hotel, named for him, he had a special office, rent-free, because he was a public character. Then followed eight happy tranquil years of teaching. Taft's older son Robert had graduated from Yale (1910) when his father was in the White House. Charles, much like his father, in manner and mind, was the all-around man of the class of '18. He played basketball, football, was the most popular...
...Millions of [Russian] churchgoers still enjoy full rights and support us materially so that we require aid of no kind and, above all, desire no interference from abroad. When priests are arrested or exiled from Moscow it is for violations of laws such as nonpayment of rent and taxes and nonfulfillment of other regulations binding all citizens...
...York, has just as many times failed to complete the alliance. Last week the merger was announced, with just one hitch. The hitch was that both companies are fragments of the old "Standard Oil Trust," and strong will be the belief that what the Supreme Court has rent asunder no man may dare put together. To argue against this, the companies will maintain, when the government brings a trial injunction, that after the dissolution the Standard Oil companies were to pursue whatever lawful courses they chose, and that this course is distinctly lawful, for Vacuum and Standard of New York...
...Westminster, most spectacular of England's richest peers; and Loelia Ponsonby, daughter of Rt. Hon. Sir Frederick Edward Grey Ponsonby, keeper of the Privy Purse; in London. To his bride the Duke gave the famed Porter-Rhodes diamond, to his tenants, remission of arrears, one week's rent...
...young fellow telephones to Clara or Rose that, he is bringing up a friend and she gets a friend. They pull the shades, drink and other things go on. . . . They also have their beer farms in Minnesota, open to city boys and girls who motor out, drink and rent a room if they want...