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Word: mortgagee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Brash, racy Walter O'Hara sat quietly by in a Providence court last week while Judge O'Connell smoothed the way for cash sale of the Star-Tribune. Among prospective purchasers New York Post and Philadelphia Record Publisher J. David Stern had the inside track in this week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Stern for O'Hara? | 12/27/1937 | See Source »

The New Yorker had been partially financed by a $13,000,000 mortgage held by Manufacturers Trust Co. When this big bank surprisedly found itself making 6% on its investment under Hitz handling, it decided to give him control of other hotels it was stuck with in Depression. Created in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Bitter Boniface | 12/13/1937 | See Source »

Under the National Housing Act of 1934, an individual could borrow up to $2,000 from a bank-with 20% of the principal guaranteed by the Government -to improve, repair or modernize his house. He could borrow up to $16,000 from a bank to build a new house-at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOUSING: Simple Changes | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

When his father and mother died in 1936, 20-year-old Robert Lee Bristow of Saluda, Va., inherited a share in a down-at-heel farm, with a $2,431 mortgage, 203 acres of depleted soil and almost no equipment. He persuaded his three brothers and two sisters to give...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Human Ingenuity | 11/1/1937 | See Source »

Last week "King George" once more loomed on the Nevada scene with a big stack of blue chips. He let it be known that he had regained control of Hotels Riverside and Golden and stood to make considerable on a new mine. When his personal crash came, "King George'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: King George | 9/13/1937 | See Source »

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