Word: trust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Heel Editor. An oldfashioned, liberal statesman is Josephus Daniels. Born in the second year of the Civil War, he grew up in the age of trust-busting and reform, became a disciple of William Jennings Bryan. As owner and editor of the Raleigh News & Observer, he fought the railroads, fought the power companies, feuded with the tobacco barons who made North Carolina rich...
...Secretary of State Cordell Hull went the task of providing that guidance. About Rumania and Hungary he was not concerned: those nations are frankly Nazi puppets. But over the years Cordell Hull had watched his Government and Finland enjoy a feeling of friendship and mutual trust that has few parallels in the history of nations, and for months he hesitated over a move that would sever those ties. This week he made...
...nominated Franklin D. Roosevelt for his first political job (New York State Senator in 1910), who went on to nominate him for President in 1932 and in 1936, got a new job last week. He became president of General Aniline & Film Corp. (originally formed by the German Dye Trust), whose real owners' nationality is still beclouded (TIME, July...
...Government contended that its 1911 dissolution of the old American Tobacco trust had merely changed the form of the tobacco industry without changing its practices. The companies were charged with controlling the auction markets at which tobacco is sold, with agreeing not to compete for the same grade of tobacco at the same time. They were also charged with price-fixing to consumers, by agreeing on wholesale prices for cigarets...
...Round Table's favorite specific idea was advanced by G.E.'s Planner Prince: a "bank" of new inventions to be built up by U.S. corporations now, released after the war through a "national clearinghouse." Less popular were the views of a refugee French aluminum trust chairman who is now with the Brookings Institution...