Word: tenanted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...East 65th St., Manhattan, where painters were freshening the iron fence and balconies of Franklin Roosevelt's town house,* a sign was last week hung out reading "For Rent, Alfred E. Schermerhorn, Inc." An enterprising reporter, posing as a possible tenant, had the real estate agent take him through the building's 14 rooms and five baths, was told that the rental asked was $6,000 a year, that the oil burning furnace in the basement would not cost more than $800 a year to operate, that the electricity bill would not run over $25 a month, that...
Ford. In Detroit Edsel Ford received a letter threatening death unless $5,000 was left on the back porch of a home in the city's northeast section. The money was duly left in a candy box. A tenant nearly ruined the case by picking it up by mistake. Soon, however, Edward Lickwala, 20, son of a onetime Ford worker, appeared to offer Federal agents information. He gave more information than he intended. Arrested, he quickly pleaded guilty and was sentenced to ten years in Leavenworth...
...just ahead of schoolteachers (85%) and railroad trainmen. Dentists (82%) and doctors (80%) were not far ahead of their nurses. Male factory workers ranked ahead of traveling salesmen (69%). Lawyers with 61% are as good a risk as female factory workers and only a shade better than auto mechanics, tenant farmers, brick masons and janitors. Policemen, firemen, track walkers and coal miners are all more honest than college students (56%), who are in about the same class as servants and carpenters. There is not much choice between hotel help, restaurant help, common labor and automobile salesmen...
...child Harold partly emptied his bottle. Then Mrs. Watson Patrick tucked him in his crib under the tree at the edge of the tomato patch, wiped dribble from his lips, and left him for an hour to help her husband cultivate the vines. Unobserved by the Patricks, shack-living tenant farmers of Bells, Tenn., when they placed the child's crib on the ground, was a red ant hill. Nor did Mother Patrick notice that her son's milk bottle was leaking on the coverlet, dripping to the ground...
...Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace acted late today to tighten enforcement of cotton reduction contracts after being informed that the acreage control program was working injustices to tenant farmers and was causing increased unemployment in the South...