Word: distruster
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From the beginning, its impresario has been Stanley Sumner, who serves as the manager and part owner (with Lindsey Hooper) of the incorporated establishment. Sumner initially had two obstacles to overcome--the deep-scated distrust of the University community toward so newfaugted a creation as the silver screen, and his own inexperience with a cap-and-gown audience. To help him during the first year of business, he hired a prominent undergraduate as floor manager, Roy H. Booth, Jr. '28, Pi Eta president and baseball team luminary, and, between the two of them, the U.T. got off to a roaring...
...thing, the rip tide of bitterness and distrust between Southern Democrats and Democratic left-wingers was widening. As representatives of P.A.C. I.C.C.A.S.P. and other left-wing factions held a council of war in Washington last week, there was dark talk of a third party...
...retreat to occupy the entire Christian Endeavor Building. Its new facilities will be oppressed into the good flight, especially into the campaign to enforce, in all seriousness, the Massachusetts law against fornication. Even with its new liberal outlook, this last outpost of holier-than-then may well find mass distrust among those who take their Sin along with death and taxes...
...Foreign Minister Molotov and the others was given a crystal-clear exposition of U.S. attitudes and intentions. In a dispassionate, soberly frank speech last week, Secretary of State James F. Byrnes told Russia that its own attitude of distrust and its belief in the inevitability of World War III were at the root of the "continued if not increasing tension" between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R...
...Harry Do It? Even though the U.S. is currently the world's chief ad- vocate of free trade, distrust of U.S. intentions is one of the chief reasons for other nations' uneasiness. The British, for instance, claim that they still do not know whether or how much or when the U.S. would be willing to lower its own tariff barriers in exchange for a relaxation of the Empire Preference system and British import restrictions. They know that the U.S. President has powers to slash tariffs as much as 50%, but they imply (as politely as possible) their doubts...