Word: tenanted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...suite Thomas Garden Apartment that I have financed cheaply in lower Bronx, New York City. The goods belonged to bricklayers, electricians, policemen, streetcar men, firemen, bookkeepers, teachers, librarians and like members of the thrifty and shifted classes, for I have provided rooms at rents they can afford. Each tenant pays down $1,000 to $1,700 cash, and thereafter $64 to $100 monthly. Eventually he will own his apartment outright. All this I have made possible by financing the construction at exceedingly low interest rates...
...played to himself on the flageolet, a sad and wandering air. Then to bed. He had bought real estate with his money-Manhattan real estate was good, and at one time he owned more than anyone except John Jacob Astor-but he never raised a rent or put a tenant out for not paying the rent. When the War came, the government took all his property under the Alien Property Custodian's Act. George Ehret got it back again. When Prohibition came he could not quite believe it. That it should happen, such a craziness! . . . He refused to shut...
...South to the nocturnal jazz of Harlem. A wag once remarked that, 'the Jews own New York, the Irish run it and the Negroes enjoy it.' " In the South the Negro is at his best in the rural districts, at his worst in the cities. As the tenant of a small farm or as the worker in a cotton or tobacco field, he is content and productive; but in the cities indolence and vice seem to be stimulated. Politics, lynching and the relations between low whites and Negro women are three of the most vexing problems. Professor Dowd...
Reaction. The cry started a month ago will continue a long time. In Texas, growers have already started to plow partly picked cotton fields for the sowing of fall small grains. Discouraged tenant farmers throughout the South are abandoning unpicked cotton for paying jobs in towns and cities. Transient labor is scarce. There are few gleaners...
Married. Luisa Tetrazzini, 52, diva; to one Pietro Vernatti, 32, her onetime tenant; in the Town Hall of Florence, Italy...