Word: trust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Legion state commander. Democrat Stigler and Republican Clark are the rival attorneys of the town of Stigler (pop. 1,572), named for the Democrat's family. Dopesters are backing Stigler to win, but the Democrats who sent the hurry call for Alben Barkley were in no mood to trust to form...
...Douglas MacArthur, before a banquet in his honor in Canberra, received the Knight's Cross of the Order of the Bath, Military Division, First Class-to which King George elevated him in 1943.* From Prime Minister John Curtin (soon to visit the U.S.) he got good wishes: "I trust that [General MacArthur] will live for many years to look back on the day he first arrived in this country for which he has done so much." Responded the soldier: "Two years ago when I landed on your soil I said to the people of the Philippines, whence I came...
After this, Tom Evans marked time for almost nine months, although he had his eye on the Mt. Vernon Co., long owned by a family trust. Tom Evans heard that the heirs wanted to get their cash out. Fortnight ago, he took the biggest jump of all by buying it (assets $10,000,000) and its subsidiary, J. P. Devine Co. (chemical processing equipment). By this deal, the Porter Co. shouldered into the car-building business. In one move, Tom Evans got 10% of the nation's freight-car-making facilities, and became the biggest U.S. manufacturer of certain...
...anonymously." Some of her benefaction, became known only last week: the founding of Manhattan's Chatham Square Music School; the establishment with Playwright Bella Spewack (wife of OWI's Playwright Sam) of the New York Girls' School Scholarship Fund; the organization of the New York Housing Trust, a war-halted experiment in limited-profits slum-clearance projects...
Said Howard Hughes: "I want to make one thing clear. I cannot devote any time whatsoever to the motion picture business until the war is over. ... I did not know of anyone whom I was willing to trust to carry on this business without any attention on my part. Then the opportunity presented itself to make an association with Preston Sturges, whose work I have always admired for many years, but who has always been unavailable because of his contract with Paramount [which recently expired]. Here is one man in whom I have complete confidence. I am happy to turn...