Word: trust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...latest and wackiest campaign-against Rhodes Scholars-the Chicago Tribune this week got an angry but considered answer. It came from an organization of which the U.S. public seldom hears: the Rhodes Trust...
Going Forward. All this started in August 1914 when young Carl, a mechanical engineer for the Swedish Match Trust, arrived in Sydney, Australia to build a match factory on the very day that Germany and Great Britain went...
Both Sweden and the Match Trust were suspect to the British, so Fridén, stuck with no funds or friends, got a job in a Sydney machine shop, and used his spare time to work on a model calculator (in Sweden he had apprenticed in a laboratory that had done pioneer work on the problem). Two years later he and his wife got permission to go home. They never got there-a fellow passenger on the boat to San Francisco, who worked for California's Marchant Calculating Machine Co., persuaded Fridén to stop...
...nowhere, renewed his option twice, was $750 in the hole and all but broke when RKO's then-President George Schaefer decided to chance it. Golden closed the deal with Ziemer's agent for $5,000-which Ziemer graciously accepted in lOUs. From the Guaranty Trust Co. Golden got a verbal commitment for financing...
...Depinet assigned an obscure script writer, Emmet Lavery, an equally obscure director, Edward Dmytryk, to make Hitler's Children, and the picture went into production with RKO's and Golden's money in partnership. After two days' shooting Golden was informed that the Guaranty Trust had decided not to make the loan after all: the war might end and leave the bank high & dry. "What," screamed Golden, "wouldn't you spend...