Word: trust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...promotional buildup. Because they knew whites (especially those who buy fight tickets) like Negro fighters virtuous, and remembering the stigma that still clung to colored fighters as a result of Jack Johnson's flamboyant wenching when he was world's heavyweight champion (1908-15), Louis' brain trust decided that their boy was going to be pure...
...instance: "Umbrella Mike" Boyle. During the lush war years, Mike collected thousands of dollars in "insurance premiums" for guaranteeing that his Chicago electrical workers would not strike. He served two months (on a year's sentence) in the clink for conspiring to break the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. But last week he was still running the Chicago electrical workers...
...First term bill of $110 payable at Harvard Trust Company, Harvard Square...
Tellers at the Cambridge Trust are waiting, in two-fisted silence, for the lads of '45 who have an ingeniously idealistic conception of the banking business and will insist that an overdrawn account is not really overdrawn, but just temporarily embarrassed...
...First term bill of $110 payable at Harvard Trust Company, Harvard Square...