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Harry Truman: Farmers sometimes took things into their own hands in those days, when the courthouse walls were plastered with mortgage…

On the recordOctober 7, 1952
Farmers sometimes took things into their own hands in those days, when the courthouse walls were plastered with mortgage foreclosures.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

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Address in Shenandoah, Iowa

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