To make room for a veterans' hospital near Cleveland in 1949, the Veterans Administration bought 14 big houses in a choice suburban section. Among them was the nine-bedroom, three-story home of Alexander Brady, a retired Erie Railroad executive who had paid $12,000 for the house in 1943, sold it to the Government for $31,500. (Since appraised at $67,857.) Brady and neighbors were allowed to rent their homes on a month-to-month basis "until such time as the premises are ... actually needed for purpose for which purchased." Later, the VA changed its mind about building the hospital, continued to rent the...
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