Word: owens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With insurance companies suspending farm foreclosures and Federal agencies promising further relief to the mortgage-ridden West, hardly anybody last week noticed a fix that mortgages had got a group of New York companies into-until they slipped out of it. In Manhattan Owen D. Young announced the formation of a Realty Stabilization Corp., with a capital of $10,000,000 and an R. F. C. credit of $100,000,000, to rehabilitate the city's real estate and make it selfsupporting. Immediate purpose of the corporation, however, is to tide guaranteed-mortgage companies through the embarrassing task...
...began Representative Ruth Bryan Owen, Florida "lame duck," daughter of the late great William Jennings Bryan, last week at a luncheon given by the Women's National Press Club to the women members of Congress. Clearing her throat, svelte Mrs. Owen read in a husky voice her "Last Will and Testament of a Lame Duck...
When Mrs. Owen demurred at having her verse printed in the Congressional Record, grey-haired Representative Florence Kahn of California overrode her thus: "Oh, give the boys a good time before you go. They'll wish they'd been smart enough to think...
...Banking & Currency Committee. Of finance he knew nothing but was bent on learning all. Ten years later he emerged as the committee's chairman ready to make his maiden speech before the House. What he had to say on the Federal Reserve bill (then called the Owen-Glass measure) filled 14 newspaper columns. Thereafter he was silent for 30 months. This year in the Senate, where he is now recognized as the ablest legislator on banking matters, he talked for less than five newspaper columns. His words drawled out of the right corner of his severe mouth, his lips...
...Universities of Warsaw and Paris, Father Skalski is now professor of Modern Theology, Church History and Sociology at the Grand Seminary. He is in the U. S. to preach in Polish at Polish churches in the East. When he arrived, tall Father Skalski was photographed with average-sized Owen Murphy, a deck steward who was his altar-boy for masses on board 5. 5. Berengaria. Father Skalski speaks English with a booming voice, a French accent and many an interjected "Pardon?" When newshawks told him he must surely be the tallest priest in the world, he laughed thunderously, said...