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...built each year and mortgage money as a rule for a part of the construction cost is available when the owner has the balance. The problem of getting money for construction loans has been growing more and more difficult, especially in states where mortgage investments have received a setback by laws limiting rights of foreclosure...
...Like the U. S. Senate which prides itself on open debate, the Exchange prides itself on being a free & open market. By the third morning newspapers were beginning to call attention to less optimistic facts about the New Deal : General Johnson had said the U. S. would have a setback within two months unless wages were promptly raised: brokers' loans had nearly tripled in three months (reached $967,000,000), showing how much speculation was afoot. Moreover the dollar had risen: the pound sterling had fallen to $4.64, result of Britain having offered (see p. 14 ) to replace...
...society editor appeared. Bertha Palmer maintained winter palaces in London and Paris but they served chiefly as hunting preserves where she caught European royalty and nobility for her Chicago castle. Chicago was good to Mrs. Palmer. It was always properly dazzled by her social display. Her only serious setback occurred in 1893 during the World's Fair. The Infanta Eulalie of Spain, whose spun glass dress of 2,500,000 threads weighed only one pound, attended one of her levees but curtly refused to meet her hostess- "that innkeeper's wife." For this famed snub Mrs. Palmer soon...
This shot, according to reporters covering the Conference, threw Mr. Churchill badly out of his stride. "He never seemed to recover from this setback and failed to make his expected 'fighting speech...
...effect of this Conference is to be to a very considerable extent a psychological effect" said Mr. MacDonald. "This week we had a little setback. Our hopes regarding temporary stabilization received just a little check. But I never felt there was very much to it. . . . My daily conference with the presidents and vice presidents [of Conference committees] this morning was as lively in spirit and as hopeful as any I have seen. When the matter of adjournment was mentioned they all laughed and we proceeded immediately to more serious practical business...