Word: trust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...influenced by his character and how the milestones in the country's financial history brought out his character. The introduction to this theme at the beginning of the book is the same as the ending--a bit of dialogue from the hearings of a House committee investigating the "money trust...
...idea was catching on elsewhere. Last week in the ladies' lounge of the Guaranty Trust Co. of New York, 70 women started a ten-week lecture course in investment sponsored by New York University. All had signed up (at $35 each) to hear Finance Professor Guy Downs Plunkett lecture on such topics as "Can I Profit from the Financial Pages of the Newspapers?" The professor thought they could...
Trafalgar Trust. Many an Englishman decided then & there that Nelson would never put to sea again. But the Lords of the Admiralty knew better. One-eyed, one-armed, rheumatic and bubbling with enthusiasm, Nelson left bed and boudoir and pursued the French fleet with his old, extraordinary combination of "unexampled patience" and fanatical excitement. "Nelson confides that every man will do his duty" was his original cocky message to his fleet, but he "cordially approved" when an officer suggested that "England expects . . ." would be more to the point...
...paced the upper deck-until a musketeer, lodged only 50 feet away in the rigging of the Redoubtable, shot him in the spine. Of the mass of tributes to Nelson, two stand out. One is that of a dying Trafalgar enemy, Spanish Admiral Gravina, who said: "I hope and trust that I am going to join the greatest hero the world almost ever produced." The other is from Sir William Hamilton-that "strange man" who, by all the rules, should have been Nelson's worst enemy, but who wrote instead: "God bless him, and shame fall on those...
...feet was North Carolina's conservative old Clyde R. Hoey. He disagreed, Hoey admitted, with many of Graham's principles. But, orated frock-coated, windy old Senator Hoey: "He is as loyal as any American who walks this earth ... no one who knows him would hesitate to trust him with any secret this nation might have . . . he is a great American." In his interim appointment, new Senator Graham will serve until 1950, may then try to be elected for the rest of the term...