Word: trust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three weeks after Japan quit fighting, Under Secretary of the Navy Artemus L. ("Di") Gates sent his resignation to Harry Truman. The President asked him to help out a little longer. Big, quiet, forceful Di Gates had left the presidency of Manhattan's New York Trust Co. as soon as the nation seemed to be getting into trouble, had served the Navy for four years and three months, first as Assistant Secretary for Air, then as the No. 2 man in the secretariat. Last week Di Gates finally began clearing up his desk-the President had agreed...
...naval aviators of World War I. Thrice decorated, he was shot down by the Germans in France. Captured, he escaped, made his way toward the Swiss frontier and then, three days before the Armistice, was captured again. His peacetime career was equally spectacular-he became the New York Trust's president at 33. He went to Washington, D.C. in August 1941 at Franklin Roosevelt's request, dived into the vast job of organizing an expanded naval air arm, managed to fly some 300,000 miles to and from war zones and war plants before...
Acting Governor' General Hubertus J. van Mook brushed aside an Indonesian suggestion that the quarrel in Java be settled by the United Nations Organization. Governor Van Mook preferred "direct discussions" between The Netherlands and her rebellious colonials. He also put his trust in growing Anglo-Dutch strength...
Foreign Affairs continued in the hands of Popular Republican Georges Bidault. A "brain trust" of four Ministers of State included Communist Maurice Thorez, Socialist Vincent Auriol, Popular Republican Francisque Gay, Rightist Louis Jacquinot...
...Beware of civil war ... of reopening the door to fascism. . . . There are rumors that Washington and London had no trust in me. The real reason for this lack of trust is that Italy has only a fragile front of antifascism. ... I hope my successors will follow the only worthy policy for Italy: left of center...