Word: trust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When a tall, heavily built man wearing a sombrero and packing a .45 pistol strode into the White Plains (N.Y.) County Trust Co., timid customers hastily summoned police, sheepishly apologized when he was identified as Frank M. Ward, an assistant manager of the local airport, calling for the weekly payroll. Ward is from Texas...
...reign, more than 200 crimes were punishable by death. Among them: felling a tree, picking a pocket, associating with gypsies for a month. In 1810, to a proposal to abolish 'the death penalty for shoplifting of articles worth five shillings or more, Lord Ellenborough had solemnly objected: "I trust your lordships will pause before you assent to an experiment pregnant with danger to the security of property . . . Repeal this law and see the contrast-no man can trust himself for an hour out of doors without the most alarming apprehensions that on his return every vestige of his property...
...club also favors anti-inflation legis lation, development of projects similar to TVA, and vigorous enforcement of now-existing national anti-trust laws...
...wanted and had to maintain Krupp, in spite of all opposition, as an armament plant for the future, even if in camouflaged form." In these words, in 1941, Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach told how his giant munitions trust had helped arm the Nazis. For this and other brags and deeds, the U.S. put Krupp high up on its war criminals list...
...writing either: 1) Eddie Albert Productions, 1133 North Highland, Hollywood 28, Calif.; or 2) E. C. Brown Trust, University of Oregon Medical School, Portland...