Word: trust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...John Brown's Shipyard in Clydebank, Scotland, on Sept. 27, 1938, at 3:36 in the afternoon, Queen Elizabeth gravely said: "We cannot foretell the future, but in preparing for it we share a trust in a Divine Providence and in ourselves"; then snipped a ribbon which released a bottle of champagne to christen the world's largest liner (85,000 tons, 1,030 feet overall) with her own name. Into the water slipped the Queen Elizabeth, and into troublous times...
...James Otto Richardson, Commander in Chief of the U. S. Fleet, with an autographed photograph of King George VI at his elbow. It was "grossly indiscreet," said Mr. Plumley; thereupon read from Article I, Section 9 of the Constitution, which says: ". . . No person holding any office of profit or trust . . . shall, without the consent of the Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title of any kind whatever from any king, prince, or foreign state...
...Otto Richardson, Commander in Chief of the U. S. Fleet, with an autographed photo graph of King George VI at his elbow. It was "grossly indiscreet," said Mr. Plumley; thereupon read from Article I, Section 9 of the Constitution, which says: ". . . No person holding any office of profit or trust . . . shall, without the consent of the Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title of any kind whatever from any king, prince, or foreign state...
...disarmed as the hearing ended, U. S. insurance still had reason to fear that the TNEC study may still be the basis for a bill to put the business under Federal control, not at this session of Congress when the SEC has its hands full with its investment trust bill, but perhaps...
...wholesaler of ideas, Frank is also largely responsible for the semantics fad. But no theory, no dogma, sticks to Jerome Frank very long. A connoisseur of them, his only principle is not to become enslaved to any set of principles, to trust no rules beyond his own democratic instincts and pragmatic sense...