Word: trust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...human mind, even the Communist mind, turns toward order. In a land where brother cannot trust brother, fear of the policeman must serve instead. The policeman has to be everywhere, because there is no other cement in the society. The spy, the informer and the censor are the aristocrats of the Communist world. The cop at the keyhole is king...
...hired Butch (for 50? a week) to live in the place, so he could see how an ordinary boy would improve on the carefully arranged surroundings. The new head, Provost Donald W. Pierpont, 41, needed all the hints he could get to make sense out of the "Deed of Trust" that the school's founder had left behind...
...rushed in with cash withdrawn from other banks and nervously asked if his money would be safe. The cashier merely nodded towards the plaque of Hamilton on the wall. "I judge you've been through several panics," said the customer-and deposited more than $1,000,000. The trust was well placed; the bank has paid a dividend every year except in panic-stricken 1837 when dividends were banned by law. (It paid double the following year...
...merger of the banks, said John C. Traphagen, Bank of New York president who will be chairman and chief executive of the new bank, was prompted by the "remarkably similar character" of their business (i.e., largely trust fund management for wealthy individuals). By combining their offices and assets (totaling some $470,000,000), the banks hope to expand commercial loan operations...
...conversations of many GOP wise men were expressed by Pundit Walter Lippmann. Said he: "There is no doubt that Vandenberg is now the man on whom the active candidates could most readily come together ... of no other man can it be said that there are so many Republicans who trust him, so few who are deeply opposed...