Soaring rents drive tenant protests before mayor’s committee
Complainants and landlords face investigation as tenants accuse profiteering in Brooklyn and West Side buildings. Letters describe rent hikes from 20 to 63 percent with threats to evict or raise costs, prompting a City Hall hearing led by Sen. Charles C. Lockwood and the mayoral committee. The Joint Legislative Committee’s Bronx session was postponed due to missing witnesses.
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Mayor's Committee On Reat
Mayors Committee
West West Street
West With Street
Jr. & Weidinger
East Louths Street
Joint Legislative Committee
City Hall
Sen
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Bronx Borough Hall
Louis 1D. Draehr
Chemical Sealy Company
Henry Steinhardt
Riverdale Avenue
Brownsville
Steinhardt
Saanitean
Joseph Mender
St East Ninety-seventh Street
Bender
Treat
Land For Soldiers Urged By Labor Federation
Henry Sterling of the American Federation of Labor urged House Public Lands Committee to pass the land for soldiers bill. He said the AFL has no division and 400 000 servicemen could benefit, helping unemployment. Representative Timberlake noted Colorado support and funds for collaboration with the government.
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Washington
Lane
House Public Lands Committee
Henry Sterling
American Federation of Labor
Americapd Federation
Lbor
Sterning
Timberlake
Colorado
Nungesser Ex-Aid Killed In Aviator Tragedy
Paris May ? One aviator Welby Jourdan former mechanician for Sub-Lieutenant Nungesser was killed and companion Effor mortally injured when their airplane fell about 200 feet at Issy-les-Moulineaux. The crash followed by the men being unable to recover.
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Paris
Issy-lesoutineaux
Welby Jourdan
Nungeager
Effor
Pacific Cruisers Under Rear Admiral Wood Arrive in New York
The First Division of the Pacific Fleet led by Rear Admiral Spencer S. Wood arrives in New York to grant leave to officers and crew of the four cruisers Chicago Denver Tacoma and Cleveland. The Chicago sails as flagship with a storied past including service in the White Squadron and European operations. The division will anchor off Ninety Sixth Street in the Hudson River.
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Spencer S. Wood
New York
Admiral Wood
Chicago
John G. Walker
Denver
Tacoma
Cleveland
E. B Fenner
Ninetysixth
Hiudson River
United
Farmers Protest Volstead Bill Plan in New York
J G Potter, a farmer from near Buffalo, plans a two day July meeting to oppose the Volstead bill introduced by Washington Representative Volstead. He argues the measure targets home produced beverages and would create a large new agency under the Anti Saloon League. The article also notes Nicaraguan forces disarming Costa Rican revolutionists at the border and the scarcity of medical care for wounded rebels.
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Washington
Volsten
J. G. Potter
Huffalo
Hote Majestic
Volstead
Potter
Anti-Saloon League
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