Word: trust
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...such military perfection. We expected that we would meet the ebb-tide of war in many disappointments and a few failures, but few of us possessed sufficient prophetic skill to see that a situation like the present would result. Our enthusiasm would not permit such dark foresight and our trust in our ability made us think lightly of any disadvantage...
...Cambridge City Committee and approximately $30,000 from student subscriptions. Of the $30,000 subscribed by students, $20,484.57 has been paid in. Thirteen thousand, three hundred dollars have been paid over to the National War Work Council. The balance, $7,184.57 is on account at the Charles River Trust Company, where it is drawing interest at three and one-half per cent...
...faults, the delays, and the inefficiency that are pointed out, in no uncertain amount of reason what we condemn the activities of the War Department. for the proof of investigations tends to show that those men whose duty is to manage the military preparation have not altogether justified our trust in them. Errors are pointed out and discussed, in order to have them remedied. Not from malice nor from political prejudice do we try to discover faults, but the benefit by their elimination. At the same time, however, dissatisfaction over one subject causes un-intentional blindness to the merits...
...evidence 1 by the revelation of German diplomatic communications. Mr. Beck is one of the most prominent leaders of the American Bar and probably has argued more cases before the United States Supreme Court than any other contemporary attorney. He is an orator of international fame, an authority on trust cases and international law and is known almost as well in England as in New York and Washington. Under the Roosevelt administration Mr. Beck occupied the position of Attorney General, and to him was largely due the Northern Securities decision by the Supreme Court. He has also been identified with...
...willfully holding up the great national work. The New York Times, a powerful Democratic organ, has devoted a series of editorials to the argument that the President, despite his great genius for moral and intellectual leadership, has handicapped his administration by appointing "unfit men to places of very great trust and responsibility," and by retaining them "after their unfitness has been demonstrated...