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Then came the final, fatal trip, the journey of President and Mrs. Harding westward across the Continent, leaving the White House in the process of renovation?not knowing that the mansion was being made ready for a new tenant. As Elbert H. Gary gave word that the steel mills were going to give up their 12-hour day, as Edward W. Bok offered a prize of $100,000 for a practical peace plan and announced a committee in charge of the award, including as a member one John W. Davis, quondam Ambassador to the Court of St. James?speeding west...
Either these two new servants expect Mr. Coolidge to renew his lease on the White House, or they are content to take temporary jobs for six months or so. If Mr. Coolidge should not be elected, the new tenant will engage other help...
...periods have doubtless been fixed to correspond to Beethoven's famous "three periods," out of respect for the composer's shade, which undoubtedly haunts the hall. The rent for the entire 63 years will amount to the neat little sum of $27,500,000. In addition, the tenant has agreed to pay taxes, insurance and running expenses...
...Homem Christo sublet the house, but after two days the new tenant went away, declaring that the house was uninhabitable...
House of Commons. The Labor Ministry in Parliament takes frequent falls, but it goes on. It suffered defeat, 221 to 212, on the question of a Rent Bill. As a sop to its left wing, the "Clydesiders," the Ministry proposed a clause whereby no tenant could be evicted for nonpayment of rent, provided he could show that he was unable to pay because of unemployment. The Liberals joined the conservatives in denouncing this clause as "Socialism" and "confiscation." The Government would have met defeat at that point, but John R. Clynes filibustered until the House was obliged to adjourn...