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Word: mortgagees (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Clucked Warbucks' friends: "He's given millions to help poor people like me. . . . He paid the mortgage on my home. . . . What a farce! I'll bet half the jury aren't even sure what they're trying him for."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Annie's Daddy | 6/4/1934 | See Source »

Drillers of Cleveland Petroleum Corp., burrowing in the apple orchard of U. S. Senator John G. Townsend Jr. and partner near Bridgeville, Del., struck oil. They packed up some samples, drove co town. One look at the sticky, black brew was enough to send real estate men scurrying to their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Oil's Week | 5/21/1934 | See Source »

When Congress assembled on Jan. 3 many a hard-money man's heart fluttered apprehensively lest Congress should inflict inflation on the U. S. Fortnight later Franklin D. Roosevelt dosed Congress with some homeopathic medicine, asked authority to devalue the dollar to the 50?-60? level. Thereupon the Congressional...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Inflation Pox | 4/23/1934 | See Source »

Three times in the last 18 months Fritzi Scheff, creator of the title role in Mile Modiste (1905-08), persuaded judges to postpone foreclosure on her thrice-mortgaged cottage & four acres near Waterbury, Conn. She sang for a while in a Broadway taproom in an unsuccessful effort to raise the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 16, 1934 | 4/16/1934 | See Source »

In his drive on fire traps, Commissioner Post recently swore he would compel all landlords, many of whom cannot pay taxes, to make their properties safe and sanitary. Vincent Astor countered with an offer to sell his slum holdings for their assessed value ($800,000). Other large slum owners like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Tenements | 4/2/1934 | See Source »

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