Word: trust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...collection has become a mecca for all fighters and managers, many of whom are so awed they contribute treasures of their own. Fleischer thinks of his museum as a sacred trust. He has willed it to the New York Public Library...
...right of the majority to do what it pleases. Not that Professor Commager would contemplate with equanimity the extinction of 49% of the population by a tyrannical 51%. He knows that democracies have sometimes utilized the franchise to vote their own demise. But Professor Commager has an unbounded trust in the good sense of the American and the British peoples. He thinks it extremely unlikely that any U.S. or British small-"d" democrat would ever trifle with the historic rights of minorities or individuals...
Court v. Congress. Professor Commager might admit that the bogey remains: representatives of the people might threaten the integrity of the Bill of Rights. But the Professor does not trust the Supreme Court to protect freedom. The record of history, he says, "reveals no instance (with the possible exception of the dubious Wong Wing case) where the Court has intervened on behalf of the underprivileged-the Negro, the alien, women, children, workers, tenant-farmers.* It reveals, on the contrary, that the Court has effectively intervened again and again to defeat congressional efforts to free slaves, guarantee civil rights to Negroes...
...possible competitors for the postwar air enumerated by Trippe: KLM (Dutch), BOAC (British), Soviet Air Trust, Air France, SILA (Swedish), Trans-Canada Air Lines, South African Airways, Lufthansa (German), LATI (Italian), Dai Nippon (Japan...
...staged in Dallas, which is Democratic but not New Dealish. There the Vice President was roundly snubbed by top business and civic leaders, roundly welcomed by labor groups, who pinned their insignia on his lapel. In his speech the Vice President sailed into the railroads with old-fashioned muckraking, trust-busting fervor. He swung hard...