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Word: mortgagee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mr. Roosevelt's plan was bold. First he dismissed the proposal (made both by Mrs. Roosevelt and by Alf M. Landon) that the U. S. give Britain cash outright. Proud Britons wouldn't welcome gifts, he said. Then he dismissed, as narrow-minded and banal, suggestions to change...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: An Hour of Urgency | 12/30/1940 | See Source »

Last week the club's directors-which include a city judge, a football coach, a theatre manager and a banker-admitted that they were broke and unable to carry on, agreed to let the Washington Senators, holders of a $40,000 mortgage, take back the Lookouts-unless President Engel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: EngePs Experiment | 12/9/1940 | See Source »

The first case ever handled by the Bureau was that of a scrubwoman who shark, a case which, the Bureau likes to point out, resulted in the mortgage shark's being run out of the city. The success of the Bureau hasn't diminished appreciably, however, since that time, for...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Legal Aid Bureau Has Busy Schedule Advising Tenants, Divorcees; Warns Chiselers Beware | 12/2/1940 | See Source »

>Acting on the recommendation of Jesse H. Jones, authorized the Federal Housing Administration to increase its mortgage insurance to the lawful limit: $4,000,000,000.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY,THE CONGRESS,FOREIGN RELATIONS: F.D.R. Goes Fishing | 11/25/1940 | See Source »

Tugboat Annie Sails Again (Warner) revives the hardheaded, soft-hearted old salt who, in her Satevepost exploits, bulldozes the boys around Tacoma's water front. Seasoned, frog-voiced Marjorie Rambeau puts on Marie Dressler's costume; villainized, kinky-haired Alan Hale plays the Wallace Beery part of Bullwinkle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 11/25/1940 | See Source »

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