Word: trust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Trust and Distrust. Because the Modern Museum has won over some other museums to its preference for the School of Paris, some observers have seen a taste trust in the making, and the Museum has acquired a small but respectably alert number of enemies. It has been attacked by progressives for showing the canvases of U.S. Bravurist John Singer Sargent, and (by Boston's Society for Sanity in Art) for corrupting the hinterlands with Picasso. Its hustling hospitality to Latin American art has been regarded as more than a hint at the policy-making power of former Museum President...
Samuel Untermyer, millionaire lawyer, politico, orchid fancier, who died in 1940, was revealed in an executor's account to have set up a $30,000-a-year trust fund for his "very dear friend," Mrs. Marguerite Herczeg, widow of a Hungarian nobleman. Mrs. Herczeg was "astonished to learn the secret...
...weeks the U.S. has turned up the heat on the giant Swedish ball-bearing trust, SKF, trying to make it stop exports to Germany. Last week the heat backfired. In Philadelphia, where SKF's U.S. subsidiary has three plants, production of bearings-now a No. 1 shortage...
...when it appeared that the Nazis would in vade Sweden, he began negotiations with SKF (Sweden), which is 99.5% Swedish-owned, and which then owned 74% of SKF Industries and another subsidiary, SKF Steel. At Batt's request, SKF turned over to him its U.S. holdings, in trust, till war's end. Last week Batt brushed off rumors that the real boss of SKF Industries is Count Hugo von Rosen, whose brother is a Swedish quisling. Said Batt: Count von Rosen is only a salesman...
Gregory Anton (Charles Boyer) is so subtle with his -trustful bride (Ingrid Bergman), his motives are so far beyond anything she could imagine, that she falls an easy victim. Husband Anton has a genius for suggestive psychology. Stage by stage his wife loses her trust in her sanity. When she cannot find a brooch he gave her, it never occurs to her that he may have "lost" it for her. When she cannot recall some trifling matter, it never occurs to her that it may never have happened. When she remembers a certain letter which would give her husband...