Word: trust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chauffeur, like his simple friends and relatives, like all the common people, wanted badly to know what was happening in and to France. But he could only live the words of his boss, the Admiral, and his boss's boss, the Marshal: wait and trust. "Take courage," the Marshal had said, "and close your ranks about me." Nevertheless, it was hard for the chauffeur and his friends not to put bricks of fact together with the uncertain mortar of rumor, and so build a comforting structure for the future. Last week they heard plenty of talk...
...Schock cast about for a scheme to insure perpetuation of his business and put his money to Christian employment. Last week he thought he had one. He converted his business into a trust and provided that, except for a modest living for himself and wife, its income should go to public schools in the districts served by his company (mostly in Lancaster, York and Dauphin Counties). There were no strings on how the money should be used. But each school district's share depended on two things: 1) the number of its pupils, 2) the amount...
...more oil taxpayers bought, the more SICO would prosper, and the more relief taxpayers would get from the burden of supporting their schools. Last week he sent to 62 school boards in Lancaster County the first installment of profits from his new trust. The gifts totalled $20,000. ranged from...
...stuff to Albany. But last week's event was something new-different from any field trial ever held in the U. S. Brainchild of a native named Richard Tift and backed by rich sportsmen including Coca-Cola Chairman Robert W. Woodruff, Manhattan Banker William C. Potter (Guaranty Trust), Walter C. Teagle (Standard Oil), this trial was an invitation affair, to determine the nation's best quail dog. To compete for this new crown came 16 "masters," chosen on performance at 53 recognized trials during the past two years...
Cresswell's chief financial backer reportedly is his second cousin, Cummins Catherwood, a youthful Main Line socialite and financier. Son of the late Daniel B. C. Catherwood, tea merchant, banker, yachtsman, with his mother (now dead) and sister young Catherwood inherited $15,000,000 outright in 1929, and trust funds that even in lean 1932 paid him $1445,070. His wife, no pauper, is Virginia Tucker Kent (daughter of onetime Radioman Atwater Kent...