Word: trust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, as it has to most businesses, the first strike came to a major U.S. bank, the Brooklyn Trust Co. What touched it off was the discharge of three employees who were members of C.I.O.'s left-wing Financial Employees Guild, which has been trying to organize the bank. (The union claimed that 65% of the employees got $35 a week or less, and even had to buy their own pencils.) As a starter, the union massed about 150 pickets-many from other unions-outside the bank's main office. A number of them got their heads...
Next day the union tried a novel picketing technique. Like many banks, the Brooklyn Trust's doors are adorned by brass handrails. Three women pickets-not bank employees-handcuffed themselves together and linked themselves as a human chain to the door rails, thus blocking the entrance. It took a patrolman with a hacksaw to cut the girls loose. At week's end, the bank said some 50 out of 800 employees were on strike and banking was going on as usual...
...itself on having been active enough in its seven-month session, but in too many things it has willingly failed. Broadly, the reason has been a confusion of statesmanship and politics, leading to such asinine Republican challenges as. "No tax relief, no European relief." Sinking back comfortably into their trust in man's supposed basic selfishness, these Congressional leaders based their political hopes on a fantastic combination of a brave, new isolationism and a hideous fear of Russia. But while a great deal of bumbling has been done about communism, labor unions, and government controls, none of which are especially...
...graduate, they report, is torch-singer Libby Holman's secretary, while another compiles tax reports for a fiduciary trust company and loves...
South Dakota. The church is the possessor of great parcels of urban real estate and, as one of the West's prime financial institutions, owns the Utah State National Bank, Zion's Savings Bank & Trust Co. and the Beneficial Life Insurance...