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Word: mortgagee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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A Lending Agency would consolidate ten independents: RFC, Disaster Loan Corp, RFC Mortgage Co., Federal National Mortgage Association, Electric Home & Farm Authority, Federal Home Loan Bank Board, Home Owners' Loan Corp., Federal Savings & Loan Insurance Corp., Federal Housing Administration, Export-Import Bank of Washington.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Plan No. 1 | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

Not acceptable are "contests and offers which encourage children to enter strange places and to converse with strangers in an effort to collect numbers of box tops or wrappers," or phony appeals such as: "By sending in a box top, you will help Widow Jones pay off the mortgage."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Bedtime Bedlam | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

Jimmy Hines always tried to take good care of his family. They were devoted to him and he to them. They lived in various upper west side apartments and finally in 1930 Mrs. Hines bought a cottage at Long Beach, L. I., financed with a mortgage taken by a friend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Portrait of a Boss | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

Robert Odell has the stature of a Wotan, the jowl of a bloodhound and a temper to match. An Iowa farmboy, he went to San Francisco in 1923, later set up as a mortgage broker in Santa Barbara. In 1927 he and some friends decided to acquire small, little-known...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MONEY & BANKING: Rescue Operation | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

By 1931 Pacific States' total assets had been built up to $103,000,000. Then came the mortgage crash and the company's management became "a rescue and rehabilitation operation." When Commissioner Evans jumped in last fortnight this "rescue operation" had cut Pacific States' outstanding investment certificates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MONEY & BANKING: Rescue Operation | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

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