Word: mortgagee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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For some weeks Governor Roosevelt's nomination seemed to me at best a very sour one. . . . The events of the past two months have done much to force me to revise some of my earlier opinions. Those elements in the Democratic party with which Governor Roosevelt did business to obtain...
In Pelham Manor, N. Y., Carl Percy advertised in the magazine Stamps that he would swap a nine-room colonial house for a satisfactory stamp collection. The house originally cost about $28,000, has a $16,000 mortgage.
"In addition", continued the eminent economist, "I believe that it would be good for the country to have a complete change. No party should be allowed to feel that it has a permanent mortgage on place and power, regardless of miadeeda, condouement of corruption, and crime, empty beatings and signal...
The Democratic nominee had ironically declared that President Hoover "for the first time has discovered that there is such a thing as a farm mortgage." Shot back Secretary of the Treasury Mills last week from St. Louis:
"Let me remind my lifelong friend and neighbor, Governor Roosevelt, whose country estate on the Hudson, which became his 'farm' overnight, is not mortgaged any more than is my 'farm,' only six miles away [1,700 acres near Staats-burg]?that Herbert Hoover knows the meaning of 'farm mortgage...