Word: distrust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Keenly aware of the distrust with which it is regarded throughout Central America, the United Fruit Co. leans over backward to keep the Zamorano school above suspicion. It has announced that it will not employ the graduates in its plantations. The school does not teach banana culture, admits no students because of political connections, markets no surplus produce for fear of being accused of exploiting the students' labor. Said one relieved staff member, long a United Fruit employe: "We feel as pure as missionaries here...
...something about it besides sign tighter neutrality bills passed by a Democratic Congress? The U.S. was very poorly armed. And the President is only making political improvisations about the coming peace. How can any peacemaking be effective when half the Democrats and all the Republicans in Congress distrust the President...
Your letter is a plea for cooperation by the Congress party in the present administration and, failing that, in planning for the future. In my opinion, this required equality between the parties and mutual trust. But equality is absent and Government distrust of Congress can be seen at every turn. The result is that suspicion of Government is universal. Add to this the fact that Congressmen have no faith in the competence of Government to ensure India's future good. This want of faith is based upon bitter experience of the past and present conduct of the British administration...
...Perfect Life. After a stay at his father's sanitorium in New Hampshire, young Sidis returned to Harvard. His lifelong physical awkwardness was already apparent. His "marked distrust of people" did not prevent him from graduating cum laude in 1914, aged 16. Reporters bypassed such classmates as Leverett Saltonstall and Sumner Welles in their eagerness to interview the prodigy. He told them: "I want to live the perfect life. The only way to live the perfect life is to live it in seclusion. I have always hated crowds." But he stayed on to breeze through Harvard Law School...
Negroes got their freedom through the G.O.P. "Millions of them distrust the Democratic Party, which for years has deprived the Negro of his right to vote in Atlanta while seeking his vote . . . in Harlem." But they have made economic gains under the New Deal; "they will not leave that party for vague assurances of future action expressed in pious platitudes. The Republican Party . . . should commit itself unequivocally and specifically to federal anti-poll tax and anti-lynching statutes...