Word: trust
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Congregational church at Brule urged his flock to keep faith in the Biblical story about Jonah and the Whale. Said he: "Jonah found his salvation down there in the submarine [belly of the whale] ... so many men doubt the prophecy of Jonah because they don't trust God." The presidential family listened attentively...
Whether or not he thrice refused a coronet, George William Norris did not announce last week. But he announced something else. He said he was hopeless of a Third Party ticket this year. He said that the Issue was the Power Trust. He said he favored non-partisan support of "progressive" Congressional candidates this year, regardless of party ticket. He assumed that "nothing new will transpire in the Presidential contest." Hence the thing for "progressives" to do is to increase their balance of power in Congress and as soon as possible amend the Constitution to provide for direct popular election...
...Permanent Chairman Robinson's address a more spontaneous outburst was touched off by these words: "Jefferson gloried in the Virginia statute of religious freedom. He rejoiced in the provision of the Constitution that declares no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification for office or trust in the United States...
...talk of his brilliant past; he wanted the reporters to get the right angle on physiology and the cloudy future, wherein lay the purpose of his endowment fund. The half million dollars was put in trust in memory of his scientist-son, Charles Francis Brush Jr., who died last year. Its income is "to finance efforts contributing toward the betterment of the human stock and toward the regulation of the increase of population, to the end that children shall be begotten only under conditions which make possible a heritage of mental and physical health, and a favorable environment...
Scientist Brush, concerned about the future, knows that science plays no favorites, preserves some of the weak, unfit, feeble-minded as well as the strong. "General reading and common sense," he says, have made him want to educate people to the evils of too great population increase. His trust fund will be used for research in eugenics, popular enlightenment, regulation of overpopulation. The program of the foundation has not yet taken definite form. Birth control clinics may be the first step...