Word: trust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Trust v. Trust. But the operations of the Unilever empire are not quite so simple. In fact, they are so complex, and sometimes so purposely camouflaged, that even the top men of Unilever don't always keep them straight...
...then things were further complicated in 1927, after the empire collided with Europe's powerful trust, the Margarine Union. The collision evolved into a merger. Out of the merger came two new companies, Lever Bros. & Unilever Ltd., with headquarters in London, and Lever Bros. & Unilever N.V.,* with headquarters in Rotterdam. "Limited" controls subsidiaries within the British Empire, "N.V." those outside-including...
Cousin Robert Rutherford McCormick, publisher of the Tribune (and co-manager of the Medill Trust),* was certain to move in. And Sister Eleanor Medill ("Cissie") Patterson, shrill publisher of the Washington Times-Herald, would replace Brother Joe as a trustee. Neither has Joe's common touch...
...Patterson had a lot in common with Franklin Roosevelt-a rich man's socialism, an appetite for power, a trust in a Big Navy-but from being a fervent supporter, he turned to a bitter enemy when Franklin Roosevelt went international. Joe Patterson was a good hater. His hatred for Roosevelt became almost pathological; and anything went, from cracks about Roosevelt's lameness to Poison Penman John O'Donnell's leers at Roosevelt's Jewish advisers. New York City's millions continued to return landslide votes for Roosevelt-and to read the Daily News...
...Both the Tribune and the Daily News are corporate children of the Tribune Co. The Medill Trust, of which Patterson and McCormick were the sole trustees, controls a bare majority of the shares...