Word: tenanted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...volume of business coming before the Bureau increased by 30 per cent during the past year, Mr. Wyman said. The largest numbers of cases involved problems of landlord and tenant, money claims, family difficulties, estates, injuries, and the drafting of legal documents...
...thirds of New York's movers got no rent reductions. By the city's latest survey of $49-and-under rentals, vacancies were 2% less than the norm. Fighting rent increases and non-renewal notices in all parts of the city, the tough little City-Wide Tenants Council and its 22 tenant union leagues were hornet-mad. Formed in 1936 to promote better and cheaper housing, the Council has fraternal relations with militant tenants' unions in Great Britain and Philadelphia, is a constant source of trouble to landlords. Now is its busy season for negotiating, litigating...
...Majority Leader Sam Rayburn who was elected his successor just before the state funeral in the House Chamber) at a time when impatience with Congress, impatience with the delays natural to democracy, was seeping through the U. S. Withal he sponsored some legislation of his own (cotton control, farm-tenant aid, soldiers' rehabilitation). Loyal to Franklin Roosevelt at every pinch save one (in 1938 he refused to sign a petition for discharge of the Wages & Hours Bill from committee), he let himself dream of being his party's 1940 nominee for President. He also let resentful delegates...
...Europe, where most of its news originates at present, Transradio has only three or four full-time reporters. In London last September, Transradio had two men, and both departed after war broke out. For several months Transradio's London office had no tenant, no name on its door. Then Alexander Paton, correspondent for some Scottish newspapers, took over. Scotsman Paton's cable stories are brief, innocuous, readily passed by British censors...
Real and immediate is the problem of clearing television's number one band for FM. Now in the position of a landlord owning an apartment from which the tenant has not yet cleared out, FM will not really start to go to town until Jan. 1. By that time FCC expects to have the space cleared. Included in the megacyclic housecleaning will be 13 maverick Government short-wave services...