Word: tenanted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...payroll. Last July, it had been cut almost in half. When R. A. officially died last week, its major functions were transferred to a new agency called Farm Security Administration, whose main job will be finishing R. A. projects already started, making tenant and rehabilitation loans with $10,000,000 appropriated by Congress, and to the Bureau of Agricultural Economics which will have another $10,000,000 for submarginal land retirement. Said diplomatic Secretary Wallace: "Major activities in the future cannot accurately be described by the word 'resettlement...
Greenbelt, as a monument to R. A., is in a sense the most appropriate that could have been devised. Its cost $14,227,000. Its rent will bring in $60,000 a year. Last week the Greenbelt Tenant Selection Staff was busy picking from 9,000 families who wanted to live there, the 885 who will eventually...
...Landon during the grueling days leading up to last Nov. 3, and he had acquired an acute distaste for all those whom he considers journalistic scavengers. In addition the Colonel is known to boast that 75% of his wire news is selected from the United Press, a well-paying tenant in the News Building...
...chief trustees. As his college grows, Mr. Pepperdine plans to assign it further income from his approximately six-year-old George Pepperdine Foundation, a philanthropic corporation which holds an unspecified amount of securities and California real estate, including Hollywood's swank Ravenswood Apartments where Mae West is a tenant...
Year ago the U. S. press carried an ugly tale: near Earle, Ark., when a picket line of sharecroppers was broken up by a mob of vigilantes, a Negro named Frank Weems had been beaten to death. Within a few days the Rev. Claude Williams, asked by the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union to preach Weems's funeral sermon, left Memphis accompanied by Willie Sue Blagden, Memphis social worker, to investigate Weems's death and gather material for his obituary. At Earle, they were seized by vigilantes. Parson Williams was given 14 thumping whacks with a mule...