Antiprofiteering Rent Bill: Hearings Before the Subcom. ...on H.R. 9248...Mar. 26, 27, 28 and April 5, 19181918 - 216 pages |
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... BROWNE . Herbert J. Browne , Senator POMERENE . What is your business ? I Mr. BROWNE . I have been for many years a newspaper man . retired from active newspaper work in 1901. Since then I have been engaged largely in public service . I ...
... BROWNE . Herbert J. Browne , Senator POMERENE . What is your business ? I Mr. BROWNE . I have been for many years a newspaper man . retired from active newspaper work in 1901. Since then I have been engaged largely in public service . I ...
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... BROWNE . No ; you may not . Otherwise , the law is rendered nugatory . It might even be neces- sary for an act to be put through Congress suspending the law of landlord and tenant in these respects until you can formulate this law to ...
... BROWNE . No ; you may not . Otherwise , the law is rendered nugatory . It might even be neces- sary for an act to be put through Congress suspending the law of landlord and tenant in these respects until you can formulate this law to ...
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... BROWNE . I decidedly do . Senator POMERENE . How would you formulate your provision ? Mr. BROWNE . I should have to give that very careful considera- tion . It can be formulated . A landlord who is living in a house of his own , we will ...
... BROWNE . I decidedly do . Senator POMERENE . How would you formulate your provision ? Mr. BROWNE . I should have to give that very careful considera- tion . It can be formulated . A landlord who is living in a house of his own , we will ...
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... BROWNE . There is a table of evictions showing that at the end of the sixth year they amounted to more than the ... BROWNE . Probably more than nine - tenths are cases of ejection for failure to pay rent . Senator POMERENE . You state ...
... BROWNE . There is a table of evictions showing that at the end of the sixth year they amounted to more than the ... BROWNE . Probably more than nine - tenths are cases of ejection for failure to pay rent . Senator POMERENE . You state ...
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... BROWNE . I can not say whether it is the usual lease form , but it is a very usual lease . That is pretty broad in its provisions . Senator HOLLIS . I had such a lease tendered to me , and I refused to sign it ; and then they gave me a ...
... BROWNE . I can not say whether it is the usual lease form , but it is a very usual lease . That is pretty broad in its provisions . Senator HOLLIS . I had such a lease tendered to me , and I refused to sign it ; and then they gave me a ...
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50 per cent act applies apartment house assessed assessor ATLEE POMERENE BALDWIN basis Bates Warren believe board of rent BROWNE building Capt Chairman charge coal committee contract cost courts emergency powers District of Columbia dwelling house fair rent FAIRFAX fixed furnished furniture give going gross HIGHT HoWRY income increase of rent instances investment Johnson bill landlord lease legislation lessee lessor lien LINKINS MARCH 26 matter means ment MIDYETTE month nineteen hundred occupied owner PARKER person PEYSER Powhatan President profiteering purposes question real estate Real Estate Brokers real-estate reason referred rent administrator rent appeals rental repairs Representative JOHNSON rooms rule Senator DILLINGHAM Senator HOLLIS Senator POMERENE Senator SAULSBURY Senator SHERMAN September 30 SHREVE statement subletting tenant thereof thing Tinkham tion unfurnished WARDMAN Washington
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Page 211 - That if any clause, sentence, paragraph, or part of this act shall, for any reason, be adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair, or invalidate the remainder thereof, but shall be confined in its operation to the clause, sentence, paragraph, or part thereof directly involved in the controversy in which such judgment shall have been rendered.
Page 27 - ... and private controls, affecting such supply, distribution, and movement; and to establish and maintain governmental control of such necessaries during the war. For such purposes the instrumentalities, means, methods, powers, authorities, duties, obligations, and prohibitions hereinafter set forth are created, established, conferred, and prescribed. The President is authorized to make such regulations and to issue such orders as are essential effectively to carry out the provisions of this Act.
Page 164 - No order for the recovery of possession of a dwelling house to which this act applies or for the ejectment of a tenant therefrom shall be made so long as the tenant continues to pay rent at the agreed rate as modified by this act and performs the other conditions of the tenancy...
Page 63 - Parliament within fourteen days after such publication, if Parliament is in session, and, if not, then within fourteen days after the commencement of the next session.
Page 61 - The unimproved value of land is the capital sum which the fee simple of the land might be expected to realise if offered for sale on such reasonable terms and conditions as a bona fide seller would require, assuming that the improvements, if any, thereon or appertaining thereto, and made or acquired by the owner or his predecessor in title, had not been made.
Page 58 - ... shall be final and conclusive. (4) Subject to the provisions of this Act, this Act shall apply to every mortgage where the mortgaged property consists of or comprises one or more dwelling-houses to which this Act applies, or any interest therein, except that it shall not apply— (a) to any mortgage comprising one or more dwelling-houses to which this Act applies and other land if the rateable value of such dwelling-houses is less than one-tenth of the rateable value of the...
Page 56 - No order or judgment for the recovery of possession of any dwelling-house to which this Act applies, or for the ejectment of a tenant therefrom, shall be made or given...
Page 27 - That by reason of the existence of a state of war, it is essential to the national security and defense, for the successful prosecution of the war, and for the support and maintenance of the Army and Navy, to assure an adequate supply and equitable distribution, and to facilitate the movement, of foods, feeds...
Page 165 - ... court having jurisdiction in the matter, in which case the court shall have jurisdiction to deal with the application as an application for leave to foreclose or realize the security under the last mentioned Act and Rules, and those Rules shall apply accordingly, (4) If it shall be made to appear to the court that the mortgage is one to which neither of the above mentioned Acts applies, the application shall be struck out.
Page 58 - Where, for the purpose of determining the standard rent or rateable value of any dwelling-house to which this Act applies, it is necessary to apportion the rent at the date in relation to which the standard rent is to be fixed, or the rateable value of the property in which that dwelling-house is comprised, the county court may, on application by either party, make such apportionment as seems just, and the decision of the court as to the amount to be apportioned to the dwelling-house shall be final...