Word: renting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Louis, Michael Hirak, rent-free shack-dweller, who burned to death in a coal stove, was found to have amassed $20,000 by saving each month all but $1.35 of his salary...
Meanwhile 40,000 Chicago employes missed another pay day. Their plight spoiled an otherwise comic-opera effect. A troop of landlords marched into the courts, demanded eviction orders against city jobholders who had defaulted their rent. Orders were issued against four women with dependent children. A janitor was ordered into the streets; he owed $20; the school board owed him $127. Law made these and six other evictions mandatory, but the court in each case granted an extension. United Charities was swamped with calls for help...
Plainly the pavements of Paris are hers to rent. In substance the Council announced that they can now be rented by anyone who will install certain approved types of lettering made with myriads of facets to reflect the sun by day, equipped with concealed lamps to blaze up from the pavements at night. Ordinary painted signs will not do. For they do not support the shrewd Council's alibi...
...particularly anxious to raise the money for when the Locker Building burned a few nights ago several hundred thousand dollars were raised within forty-eight hours to replace it. Harvard, as we know, exists almost entirely on either the conscience money paid over by rich men or the rent, profits, dividends and interest on her invested millions. Harvard's heads, some of them are men who receive an income close to a million dollars a year through birth and not because of any effort of their own. That they should display such calloused indifference to the condition under which their...