Word: custodians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...44th Division. In the battle of the Carolinas, General Muir had to get his outfit across the dried-up Pee Dee River, where the only available bridge had been "destroyed" and he could not get his motorized equipment across the rocky river bed. His solution: an order to the custodian of a power dam upstream to give him some water. The custodian deferred to military might. When the river had risen two feet, the General's engineers took guns and trucks across on improvised floats. The General was later informed that he had wasted 65,000 kilowatt hours...
...sought on 14 charges of malfeasance but the move fell through in the House. A Senate committee prying into the "Teapot Dome" oil scandal suspected his involvement; it was unable to prove it. Shortly afterward he resigned under pressure. He was indicted for graft involving the Alien Property Custodian but was not convicted. For the rest of his life he labored to clear his name. He died with his work unfinished. Totally blind in one eye, half-blind in the other, he had been ill for a year before he died...
Sterling's agreements with I. G. Farben date back to the early '20s, after its predecessor had bought the Bayer patents (which belonged to a Farben predecessor) from the U.S. Alien Property Custodian, but failed in a legal fight to extend them to Latin America. The agreement let Sterling make Farben products and sell them in Latin America, but only on commission (25%). Sterling processed these drugs (usually from German raw materials), had $10,000,000 worth of plant in Latin America, but the drugs bore Farben's names. The agreements, until last week, still...
...role, to become a sort of super-President, a Hemisphere statesman. Tentative talk was heard that Henry Agard Wallace might become the first executive Vice President, an innovation in Government functions whereby all definitely domestic affairs would be turned over to Wallace, who would thus become custodian and watchdog of the New Deal at home...
...Some gentlemen may be tempted to exceed the mark in their repentance of their sins of silence. Among these the name of Archibald McLeish leads all the rest. . . . This custodian of the nation's culture inferred last spring that the Word was more important than the truth, when he scored the post war writers for the effect of their work, although he could not deny the validity of the picture they painted. One may gather that if we are to join Mr. MacLeish in the Word hunt, we are to disregard truth and teach only that which serves our particular...