Word: telegram
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the New York World-Telegram's energetic Ray Tucker sought out Idaho's Senator Borah at Boise, asked him his solution of this enormous problem. The Borah remedy: Let insurance companies and other large holders of the land banks' mortgage bonds voluntarily scale down farm indebtedness to a point where it can be paid. Said Senator Borah...
Impressed, the World-Telegram produced figures to show the following: U. S. life insurance companies take in about four billion dollars annually, disburse about three billion; they have $1,700,000,000 of their $16,000,000,000 in resources invested in farm mortgages; if they applied their surplus income for one year to farm mortgages, they could scale them down about two-thirds; such a move would cut their gross income less than...
...telegram delivered late last night, with every indication that the signature is authentic, promises that Dr. Hu Flung Huey, famed prognosticator, will be on hand in Cambridge during the fall to predict results of college gridiron tilt and other sporting events. The Sage of the Age, whose services the CRIMSON was fortunate enough to secure when Joe Forecast married, has worried his way back from the war in China, and is steering an erratic course towards Cambridge...
...telegram, from Deming, N. M., is not altogether clear in all its implications: the doctor has always been an individualists, and has not infrequently come into abrupt contact with officials...
...telegram follows...