Word: entrustment
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...immortality would depend not so much on his achievements as patriot and scientist but for the little weekly he founded for his neighbors in William Penn's colony. The vicissitudes of its early life and the near-extinctions that several times threatened it would not have encouraged anyone to entrust his chances of fame...
Decentralization is a prime tenet of the Hoover theory of administration-dividing the work into parts and making one person responsible for each part. He would rather appoint a director of this and a director of that and let them choose assistants than entrust this-and-that in one lump to a commission. Radio is an example. Last week radiowners throughout the U. S. made out new dialing charts as a result of the Federal Radio Commission's reassignment of station wavelengths. Perhaps the new charts will serve for some time, perhaps they will need changing again before Christmas...
Momentous is Prime Minister Pomcaré's decision not to hold the portfolio of Finance himself as heretofore but to entrust it to Senator Henri Cheron, Chairman of the Senate's Finance Committee and Minister of Commerce since the death of Maurice Bokanowski (TIME, Sept. 10). The Prime Minister significantly intimated last week that he will now have time to visit Berlin in connection with the momentous work of revising the Dawes Plan (TIME, Sept. 24, et seq.). When asked if he would also visit Washington to seek revision of the French debt, Lion Poincaré growled irritably...
...slip began last fortnight when Inquisitor Walsh let boyish Senator Nye go to Chicago to investigate what might be new evidence. Since Senator Nye is Chairman of the Senate Committee on Public Lands, which is charged with the investigation, it was logical to entrust him with the errand. That it was unfortunate soon became apparent. The importance of his mission overcame him and he returned hinting breathlessly that his findings involved "a name that it would be criminal to mention until further investigation." The name of Warren Gamaliel Harding soon leaked out. The Committee was reviewing the sale...
...died; remained a fat silly prince who carried a dormouse in his pocket, heir to the Margrave's wide possessions. The duchess?who called her castle with the name her peasants had given her?"Maultasch" (Sack-mouth)?found a man as ugly as herself to whom she could entrust her affairs. Konrad of Frauenberg was an albino who found his enjoyment of life in eating, drinking, taking a bath, sleeping and three other kindred but less polite pleasures. He sneered at the duchess, managed her lands, killed her husband, then her son, finally her detested enemy, the lovely...