Word: trust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pennsylvania oil fields when the fight between Standard Oil and the independents was hottest. Her father and brother were oil men whom Rockefeller had pushed to the wall. Miss Tarbell proved a terrible avenger. Her History of the Standard Oil Company, a perfervid, superbly documented indictment of oil-trust machinations, brought in a gusher of popular ill will which still bubbles up from time to time in anti-Rockefeller sentiment...
...Above all, we must select leaders whose promises we can trust. . . . We question that the men who were unable to foresee . . . conditions in time to avoid them, who could not foresee the war in time to prepare for it, who refused to believe the reports of rearming abroad when there was still time to take action, are now competent to carry this nation successfully through a great crisis. Under their leadership, we have alienated the most powerful military nations of both Europe and Asia, at a time when we ourselves are unprepared for action, and while the people...
...Dress Designer Elsa Schiaparelli, about to address the twelfth annual Boston Conference on Distribution, arched her back. "That man," she hissed, "tell him to stop smoking that cigar! The timbre of my voice-I shall not be able to speak." Tiptoeing up to the offending guest, flustered hosts persuaded trust-busting Assistant Attorney General Thurman Arnold to quash his stogie...
...Cabinet shaped itself up as a time bomb which must eventually explode. Encased in their common desire for victory, there must nevertheless be some acid friction between Bevin, who was the brains of the General Strike, and men who helped break it; between others who had learned not to trust each other's judgment in the past and had no particular assurance that in a pinch they could trust each other's judgment...
However, a quirk in the Massachusetts law allows a student who can prove that he is supported practically entirely from a scholarship or from a trust fund and that he was in the state six months ago (May 5) can register and vote as a citizen of the Commonwealth...