Word: trust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Looking back over his own 33 Army years, the nation's almost-forgotten soldier was content last week that the U.S. had finally come to recognize the importance of the Chief of Staff's job ("the old Prussian military 'brain trust' system"). Looking ahead, he had some tart advice for the American people...
...might seem to be no earthly reason why this story of married life should come to its unhappy end. The story proceeds from highly complicated causes to effects that are always more than a little ambiguous. But in its account of the silent, invisible, termite undermining of affection and trust, the ghastly cost of the withholding of truth between man and wife, Victoria Grandolet makes its contribution to human understanding. The picture that emerges, stripped of its romantic setting, is too close to too many examples to be either exotic or nightmarish...
...news of Bari was bad. What was even worse was the skittishness in Washington (or London) about telling the facts. If, after four years of World War II, the people of the U.S. should come finally to believe that their leaders are unwilling to trust them to "take" bad news, that disaster would be greater than any Bari...
...Army and the U.S. people talked things over last week, finally decided they had better trust each other. ''The Patton affair" (see p. 69) became a test for the democratic maturity of both...
...more than a decade after she divorced Plant, she claimed she had adopted the baby boy she brought back from abroad. Plant died in 1941; a trust fund of more than a half million dollars was to go to his offspring, if he had any. Recently Constance Bennett declared that her adopted son was really hers and Plant's, born after their divorce, that she had adopted the boy to keep his father from getting custody of him. Last week, when Plant's mother and his show-girl widow were fighting a court battle with Miss Bennett over...