Word: tenanted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sponsor of the national rent-control law, he had favored a "voluntary" 15% provision for the rest of the country. As a tenant of the Westchester Apartments, he and several other Senators were fighting a 17½% rent hike proposed by their landlord. The country's tenants would be watching Buck...
Under prevailing interpretations of the law, the clause gives the tenant the right to remain in the Trust, without signing the escalator clause, as a tenant at will. Such tenancy may be terminated at 30 days notice by the Trust...
Congressmen labored more effectively in committee rooms. One accomplishment was an agreement by House-Senate conferees on a bill to continue rent control until March 1, 1948-with qualifications. The bill would permit rent boosts of 15% over present ceilings, provided the landlord 1) gets a tenant's "voluntary" consent and 2) gives him a lease running through 1948. It would remove restrictions on commercial building (except for amusement and recreational facilities...
...Bite. In Indianapolis, Landlady Esther Lemons lispingly complained to police that a tenant had moved out with bag, baggage and a set of teeth (lowers) that she had been generous enough to lend...
...virtual social recluse for several years after his first wife died, McCormick has mellowed and relaxed since December 1944, when he married his neighbor and onetime tenant, gay and gracious Mrs. Maryland Mathison Hooper. Last year he joined the Wheaton First Presbyterian Church, and plunged into an enthusiastic study of Presbyterian theology. Nowadays at Cantigny there are movies and a buffet on Friday nights, and the Colonel and his lady take frequent flying jaunts in his well-appointed Lockheed Lodestar. At his party last Christmas night (complete with boar's head and singers from WGN), he unbent...