Word: trust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among Cheng Hsueh Hsi's leaders were General Chang Chun, 60, governor of Szechwan, once known as the Gissimo's "one-man brain trust," and Dr. Wu Ting-chang, 56, banker, expublisher of the influential Ta Rung Pao, and governor of Kweichow. The appointment of T. V. Soong as President of the Executive Yuan or the inclusion of the Political Science Group in the Government would indicate how far Chiang intended to go in liberalizing his regime. Said Ta Kung Pao last week: "Now is the time" for more changes "to increase administrative efficiency...
...musical Fifties. She is married to Edward Gates, a CBS production man, and is quite certain that marriage and a career mix perfectly. Says she, in her rather flat, methodical manner: "My husband has his own career and keeps himself very busy. Everyone needs someone he can trust, someone he can let his hair down to. Anyone who is self-sufficient must be a completely selfish person...
...heartily endorsed the insistence of the major powers on a veto privilege. America will be unwilling, asserted Professor Perry, to trust to an international order in which the United States may be outvoted by 40 or 50 scattered countries, the management of conquered territories for which many American soldiers gave their lives...
...battle began back in 1937. Washer, a $165 trust-department clerk, campaigned to unionize the bank workers -7,200 of them in 494 branches...
Preacher Howard has baptized hundreds of Ozark people. One of his strangest converts was an old granny. The blind old woman summoned him to her cabin, said: "From what I heerd about ye, preacher, I reckon I kin trust ye ter keep a secret. Hit's always been a deep sorrer in my life, I kin tell ye. My own children don't know and nobody else here knows. But, preacher, I feel I ain't much longer fer this world and I jist gotta confess hit ter somebody...