Word: trust
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Weapon. For the first time in history, the antitrust division is ready, willing, able. In Theodore Roosevelt's trust-blustering days-13 years after the passage of the antitrust act-the U. S. had five lawyers and four stenographers to enforce action on the law. In 1933 there were 18 people in the antitrust division of the Justice Department. Their major problem was to keep awake in the warm Washington afternoons. Last week Mr. Arnold had behind him upwards of 160 lawyers, all of them loaded with shrapnel and ready to fire...
Into the presidency of Kellogg stepped tall, grey-haired, grey-eyed William H. Vanderploeg (rhymes with Kalamazoo). Plucked from a vice-presidency in Chicago's Harris Trust & Savings Bank last July, he had been Kellogg's executive vice president. To the chairmanship retired Will Keith, hoping to devote the rest of his life to his two big hobbies: 1) W. K. Kellogg Foundation in Battle Creek, which he established nine years ago to improve children's health (endowed with $46,000,000); 2) W. K. Kellogg Institute of Animal Husbandry (with 80-odd pure-bred Arabian horses...
Popularly known as the Corporation, the self-perpetuating body of seven men, who constitute the President and Fellows of Harvard College, has been described by John Hayes Gardiner, Harvard historian, as "the owners and managers of the University in trust for the community...
...Philadelphia, trustees of an estate were refused civic permission to carry out their trust: to erect bronze statues of four Revolutionary War generals in front of Independence Hall. Puzzled, they turned the statues of Generals LaFayette, Montgomery, Pulaski and Steuben over to the Philadelphia Orphans' Court...
...when he was a boy, William Howard Taft was large but not lubberly. At Yale he worked hard, though he complained about it. As a young lawyer he was sound if seldom successful. As an Ohio Circuit Judge between 1892 and 1900 he was happier, and in one anti-trust decision soberly took issue with a more lenient Supreme Court. As president of the Philippine Commission, he replaced military rule with the rule of law, achieved one of those enormous successes that make diffident men more diffident. Time after time his enthusiastic friend, President Theodore Roosevelt, invited "Dear Will...