Word: entrusting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Blair McClenachan writes in a letter to TIME [May 2]: "It seems shabby as hell to entrust a man with hundreds of thousands of dollars to manage, and pay him only $6,500 a year for the responsibility...
...time publisher to get promotion, advertising and editorial departments working together to plug the magazine. With his Philadelphia Inquirer, pulps (Official Detective Stories and Gags) and a string of daily racing forms, he was too busy to do the job himself, but Alice Thompson seemed just the hand to entrust it to. To fill her old spot he snagged pretty, blonde Andrée Vilas, 34, once editor of Junior Bazaar, then managing editor of Glamour, and currently managing editor of Charm...
...contributions we made during the northern expedition and the war of resistance, the foundation of the republic has been greatly strengthened. The idea of democracy has become a popular sentiment. In these circumstances our party does not need to keep the post and honor of the presidency. . . . We can entrust to a person outside the party the grave responsibility of making the constitution a living thing. Only in this manner shall we rally the support of the people...
...Despite its lack of real-life vitality (as in Shoeshine The Search may be a popular success. If so, it will help Hollywood find the courage for more such ventures. A studio willing to go the whole hog in daring-i.e., to tackle so powerful a subject, entrust it to strong men with bold ideas, guarding only against artiness and pretension-would be in serious danger of turning out a major movie...
...Bandwagon Zip. Many GOPoliticians were privately talking Vandenberg up as the strongest man to whom the party could entrust its interests and the nation...