Word: trust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...phrase "Brain Trust" is happily dead, of overexertion. U. S. citizens tend more & more to think of their President as an independent, secretive, isolated individual existing in a near vacuum of his own making. Independent he is to a degree: he once said truly that only the President could speak for the President. Secretive he can be (about Third Term, for instance). But he is not isolated. Around him, on the pedestal where Presidents must live, are men on whom he relies. In seven years the make up of that group has changed several times. In 1933 it centred...
...bounds. But recently Duff Cooper intensified his drive until it became preposterously exaggerated. Three cinema shorts, a deluge of new colored posters, quarter-page advertisements in 108 newspapers and 72 magazines kept dinning: "Never pass on knowledge about the place or extent of air-raid damage; don't trust enemy broadcasts and don't discuss them with others; if you know somebody who makes a habit of causing worry and anxiety by passing on rumor, tell the police; if it's true, the enemy can use it-if it's not true, the enemy is using...
...these disclosures popped, North American, traditionally aloof from the management details of its subsidiaries, slowly decided that an investment-trust posture toward Union Electric would no longer suffice. Its then President James Francis Fogarty first replaced (but kept on salary) Union Electric Officers Egan ($58,000), Boehm ($41,000), and Laun ($16,800). Few months later, all three resigned and two other officers were demoted. Meanwhile, President Fogarty himself moved upstairs, and Ed Shea moved...
Columbus' brothers, in charge of Española, are by no means trustworthy, his ex-valet Roldan is in open revolt. Columbus himself is arrogantly, piteously aware that there is not a man on earth he can trust. It is Don Narciso's business to report to his King that "the Admiral was not fit to govern a farmyard, let alone an empire." He dislikes his task, but takes comfort in the thought of sailing, on the morrow, for Spain and the quiet life. Kidnapping, hurricane, shipwreck, a Crusoe sequence delay his return. When he finally sails...
...mugs his way from Carvel to Manhattan to make good on a boast that he is acquainted with a glamorous bud named Daphne Fowler (Diana Lewis). The Judge (Lewis Stone), nominally heading the expedition, is engaged on a legal chore thoroughly in keeping with the Hardy character: protecting the trust fund that supports the Carvel orphanage. Cocks of the walk in Carvel, the Hardys are beset but not conquered by plushy lawyers and frosty headwaiters. Everyone encounters preliminary tribulations before Andy gets to see Daphne through the intercession of the Hardys' old friend Betsy Booth (Judy Garland). After...