Word: trust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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King, Judge, Dukes. In 1860 a For-Lincoln-Before-Chicago man was James McManes, an Irish Presbyterian immigrant who politicked his way from cotton-mill bobbin-boy to the top of Philadelphia's "Gas Trust." In 1865 "King" McManes formed Philadelphia's habit of burying the Democratic Party. The political pattern in Pennsylvania was for 70 years after: 1) that old families, business and the Republican ticket were respectable, Democrats and reformers were not; 2) that Republicans were regarded as the guardians of the protective tariff and thus of the American way of life; 3) that Pennsylvania should...
...Public Trust. Mass-Observation is an organization founded three years ago in Britain by a young biologist and a young poet. Part social club, part scientific society, its members with the aid of some paid employes conduct on an amateur scale something vaguely resembling FORTUNE'S survey. They publish their findings in a periodical titled Us. In a recent issue Us reported that "mistrust of the newspapers is a commonplace with every section of the population...
Last week, Irish Hospitals' Trust, Ltd. served dismissal notices to its employes, announced voluntary liquidation. Reason: the war had thrown a monkey wrench into its sensitive international sales organization and the take is too small. For last fortnight's Sweeps on the Grand National, only ?224,500 was collected. In Dublin, rumor had it that Promoter McGrath (Duggan is dead) will soon organize a new company-to establish an Irish Monte Carlo, known as Killarney...
...Wells had a partner, a cautious, experimental man, William Morton. He had no trust in laughing gas, but tried ether for years, independently of Long, on countless bugs, goldfish, rats, worms and dogs. Finally he successfully anesthetized himself and several patients. In 1846, he gave an ether demonstration before the staff of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Said famed Surgeon John C. Warren to his amazed colleagues: "Gentlemen, this is no humbug." Doctors soon took up anesthesia with enthusiasm, but forgot Morton. For a while, he went into partnership with Charles Jackson, a noted chemist and physicist, but finally, homeless...
...lobby. There she pastured her cows. Asahel II 's son was no banker, dabbled in world travel, social pastimes. Of the grandsons, one, Asahel IV ("Tito"), 28, is an Associated Press reporter in Salt Lake City, the other, Stewart, 25, is a director of the family trust company...