Rent Commission in the District of Columbia: Hearings Before the Joint Subcommittee of the Committees on the District of Columbia, Congress of the United States, Sixty-eighth Congress, Second Session, on S. 3764, a Bill to Create and Establish a Commission, as an Independent Establishment of the Federal Government, to Regulate Rents in the District of Columbia, January 12-14, 19, 23, 26-28 1925 ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1925 - 663 páginas |
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... reduction has been pending before the commission for several months is un- able to continue to pay the high rent and is disposessed and obliged to vacate . He may still have a hearing before the commission and obtain his refund for the ...
... reduction has been pending before the commission for several months is un- able to continue to pay the high rent and is disposessed and obliged to vacate . He may still have a hearing before the commission and obtain his refund for the ...
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... reducing rentals on his property , he is knowingly and will- fully violating the terms of the law and the provisions ... reduced the rental on a piece of property owned by him from $ 18 to $ 14 . It was occupied by a negro who had six or ...
... reducing rentals on his property , he is knowingly and will- fully violating the terms of the law and the provisions ... reduced the rental on a piece of property owned by him from $ 18 to $ 14 . It was occupied by a negro who had six or ...
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... reduced purchasing power of salary that the proposed rent law would effect by the confusion of household economy to result from destroying the economic basis of homemaking . There are over 35,000,000 women in the country by profession ...
... reduced purchasing power of salary that the proposed rent law would effect by the confusion of household economy to result from destroying the economic basis of homemaking . There are over 35,000,000 women in the country by profession ...
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... reduced without your asking for it ? Mrs. BROWN . No , sir ; we did ask . Representative BLANTON . You did ask yourself ? Mrs. BROWN . Yes , sir ; I asked myself and plenty of others asked . Representative BLANTON . Then it was reduced ...
... reduced without your asking for it ? Mrs. BROWN . No , sir ; we did ask . Representative BLANTON . You did ask yourself ? Mrs. BROWN . Yes , sir ; I asked myself and plenty of others asked . Representative BLANTON . Then it was reduced ...
Página 82
... . He said no . Then I had to pay the $ 60 , but so many other tenants in the building went to the Rent Commission and that is why I went to the Rent Commission and they reduced 82 RENT COMMISSION IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.
... . He said no . Then I had to pay the $ 60 , but so many other tenants in the building went to the Rent Commission and that is why I went to the Rent Commission and they reduced 82 RENT COMMISSION IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.
Términos y frases comunes
9 rooms apartment house Avenue NW B. F. Saul bill Boss & Phelps BROWN building CALLAHAN cent CHAIRMAN Chastleton Clifton Terrace committee Congress Connecticut Avenue deed of trust District of Columbia Doctor WALDRON electricity eviction fact Fourteenth Street Furnished Georgia Avenue GORE H Street H. L. Rust HAGNER hearings heat increase JONES of Washington kitchen labor land landlord Linkins MACCHESNEY ment Miss NALLS month Moore & Hill owner paid PETTY question real estate board REED Rent Commission rent law rental Representative BLANTON Representative HAMMER Representative LAMPERT Representative STALKER Rhode Island Avenue rooms and bath salary Senator COPELAND Senator JONES Seventh Street Shannon & Luchs six rooms Sixteenth Street statement Stone & Fairfax Street NW Supreme Court Takoma Park tenants testimony three rooms TSCHIPKE Unfurnished United vacant WARDBY WHALEY WHITEFORD Wisconsin Avenue WORRELL
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Página 45 - Property does become clothed with a public interest when used in a manner to make it of public consequence, and affect the community at large. When, therefore, one devotes his property to a use in which the public has an interest, he, in effect, grants to the public an interest in that use, and must submit to be controlled by the public for the common good, to the extent of the interest he has thus created. He may withdraw his grant by discontinuing the use; but, so long as he maintains the use,...
Página 212 - 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.
Página 449 - That for and in consideration of the sum of one dollar cash in hand paid by the party of the second part to the party of the first part...
Página 425 - No FREEMAN SHALL BE TAKEN OR IMPRISONED, OR DISSEISED, OR OUTLAWED, OR BANISHED, OR ANY WAYS DESTROYED, NOR WILL WE PASS UPON HIM, NOR WILL WE SEND UPON HIM, UNLESS BY THE LAWFUL JUDGMENT OF HIS PEERS, OR BY THE LAW OF THE LAND.
Página 432 - The general rule at least is that while property may be regulated to a certain extent, if regulation goes too far it will be recognized as a taking.
Página 241 - depending upon the existence of an emergency or other certain state of facts to uphold it may cease to operate if the emergency ceases or the facts change even though valid when passed.
Página 44 - To say that a business is clothed with a public interest is not to import that the public may take over its entire management and run it at the expense of the owner. The extent to which regulation may reasonably go varies with different kinds of business.
Página 50 - ... formulate a rule of constitutional law broader than is required by the precise facts to which it is to be applied.
Página 55 - Every possible presumption is in favor of the validity of a statute, and this continues until the contrary is shown beyond a rational doubt. One branch of the government cannot encroach on the domain of another without danger. The safety of our institutions depends in no small degree on a strict observance of this salutary rule.
Página 658 - States are forbidden from making or enforcing any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States, or shall deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law, or deny to any person within their jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.