Word: trust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ciano was no fool. He saw the writing on the wall well ahead of the other stal warts of the Fascist hierarchy, began making quiet plans to save himself. His solicitude cost him the favor of the Nazis, later the trust of his fellow-Fascists. Mussolini took over the portfolio of Foreign Affairs, made his son-in-law Ambassador to the Vatican. But he let Ciano save face with a seat on the Fascist Grand Council, and it was there that Ciano pulled down his house of cards about his ears: when the Council voted to oust Mussolini last July...
...company were named in an anti-trust suit filed by the U.S. Department of Justice. Named with him were 1) I.C.I.'s deputy chairman, Lord Melchett; 2) E. I. du Pont de Nemours, Inc., Board Chairman Lammot du Pont and President Walter Samuel Carpenter Jr.; 3) Remington Arms Co. and its president, Charles Krum Davis...
...percentage of affirmative votes (48.3%), followed by Herbert Hoover (47.7%) and Wendell Willkie (41.4%). More than anything, the poll showed that G.O.P. committeemen considered men rather than issues. Almost all GOPresidential possibilities stand for some form of world organization; the practical committeemen voted most heavily for the man they trust the most at the moment...
...Sight. "The situation is good. The end of this war is definitely in sight. All we have to do is to have complete trust in our leaders - leaders of the nations - and get on with the job. . . . May we meet again soon...
Waring & Teller say they could go on to tell about ducks, geese, guinea fowl, calves and kids and steers, maple sugar, vinegar and wine and the value of conserving game on the farm, but they trust that in a few paragraphs their readers will get the idea about diversification. As for orchards, they doubt the value of putting much time and money into them. They have never been able to eat enough peaches or apples to recover the cost of spraying for home...