Word: mortgagee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile famed and lionized Mr. Kipling had married very simply the sister of a literary friend. She was of Vermont, and her name was Caroline Starr Balestier. In Vermont, ignoring the advice of well-wishers who desired them to build "an ordinary mortgageable house" they erected what is still the...
In more veiled but not less threatening terms the U. S. Shipping Board Bureau of the Department 'of Commerce let "all owners of ships under mortgage to the Government" know that "the carrying of essential war materials ... is distinctly contrary to the policy of the Government." Off the record...
The late Alfred Bernhard Nobel, inventor of dynamite, made much of his money in munitions, provided in his will that the prize fund should be transferred to "safe securities," which the executors have interpreted to mean first mortgage bonds. The Peace Prize is awarded by a committee chosen by the...
The FHA insurance applies not only to small houses (mortgaged for not more than $16,000), but also to large apartment house developments with valuations running up to $10,000,000. But these large apartments must rent at low cost ($10 to $15 a room), must be "limited dividend" operations...
Accused of having wrongfully sold some cattle on which a creditor had a mortgage of $1,370, a judgment for $350 was obtained against Edmond Mingo. Unable to pay, he was found guilty of contempt of court, sent to jail on June 4, 1934. Since then Samuel Insull has been...