Word: trust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Questions?, familiarly known as "The Brains Trust," brings together as regulars an old sea dog, a fluent philosopher and a famed scientist-all three bossed by a London wit. Spontaneous and unrehearsed, its object is not to stump the experts but to draw them out. BBC now receives more than 2,000 questions a week, of which the likeliest dozen or so are popped to the Brains Trust during its three-quarters of an hour (5:15 to 6 p.m. Sundays...
Taylor continued by warning against implicit faith in the democratic process by saying that, "The specious argument that a democracy should put unlimited trust in its government does not hold water" because one can not always be sure that the elected representative will act for the best interest of the people at large...
Left. To Dr. Alexander Hamilton Rice, Manhattan surgeon, tropical explorer: the bulk of an estate assessed last week at $14,081,348.66; by his wife, Eleanor Elkins Rice, whose first husband was the late Philadelphia multimillionaire George Dunton Widener. Left in trust, the estate will go at Dr. Rice's death to his late wife's son and daughter by Widener...
...Leagues, the up-&-coming American circuit puts on a hell-for-leather hockey show attracts almost as many spectators as the National League. Last year Cleveland's Barons outdrew the New York Rangers. Nearly as large a following had the little Hershey Bears, owned and operated by a trust fund set up by chocolate-rich Milton S. Hershey for his chocolate-bar paradise at Hershey...
...became a cab driver, in 1938 applied for a WPA job. Left. By the late Simon Guggenheim, copper tycoon: to the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the bulk of his estate, not yet estimated; to his widow, Olga Hirsh Guggenheim, a $100,000 annuity from a $2,000,000 trust fund; to numerous relatives, friends, institutions, about...