"The New Deal also came to the rescue of mortgaged farmers and city-dwellers by taking steps to prevent foreclosures, then dreadfully common; the federal government, in essence, underwrote both the lenders and the borrowers."
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Hugh Brogan, The Penguin History of the United States of America, 1990.
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