Word: trust
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Kansas Citizens wrote to prospective visitors and warned that the local law makes it jail offense to possess one quart of intoxicant. They also warned against conventioneering bootleggers, whose stock-in-trade this year is murderously "cut" and atrociously priced. The alternative suggested was to trust to personal Kansas City hospitality, for corn abounds there and it was from corn that mellow bourbon whisky used to be made...
...switched to and succeeded in public utilities, switched to and dazzled the oldsters in politics (he managed McKinley's Illinois campaign for Mark Hanna), switched to banking and excelled at that (U. S. Comptroller of Currency, 1897-1902; founder and head of the Central Union Trust Co.; urged by Andrew Mellon in 1920 for Secretary of the Treasury). He did the War purchasing for his boyhood friend, General Pershing; then straightened out the Federal Budget system; then devised the plan for Germany's reparations and shared (with Sir Austen Chamberlain) a Nobel Peace Prize...
...activities of the U. S. public utilities-the "Power Trust"-private interests opposing the Government's entry to the electricity industry. So widespread, so penetrating, so energetic, so determined, so covert has been the propaganda of these interests that, as it is exposed bit by bit by the Federal Trade Commission's current investigation, the issue between California and Arizona has been twisted from its cultural base...
...Taber Loree, younger of the two sons of Chairman Leonor Fresnel Loree of the Delaware & Hudson Railroad, to be a member of the D. & H.'s board of managers. He has been a vice president since 1923. His brother, Robert Fresnel Loree, is vice president of the Guaranty Trust Co. of Manhattan, in charge of its foreign department. Their uncle, W. C. Loree, is a director of the Kansas City Southern Railway, of which their father is chairman...
...there was no balm in the Equitable Trust's advertisement, which read: "Banks don't solicit expiring accounts. Establish your banking relationship and your credit while conditions are favorable. No doctor is anxious to be called in when the patient is known to be dying. Neither can you expect any bank to want your account when you are in business trouble. . . . Be sure to establish a profitable connection when you are prosperous and in a position to choose...