Word: trust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...District of Columbia. Talkative, cigar-smoking Thurman Arnold, ex-Yale professor, writer of witty and readable economic treatises (e.g., The Folklore of Capitalism-), said he would go back to law practice, with an eye to what interested him most when he was an Assistant Attorney General-anti-trust cases...
...Trusteeship Council for dependent territories is guided by a statement of principles recognizing the paramount interests of the governed. The administering power is pledged to develop self-govern ment (but not necessarily independence) in trust territories. These guarantees are only theoretical - the Council as yet has no territories to protect - but the beginning is promising...
...race, sex, language or religion; to create conditions of stability and well-being and through international cooperation, to promote higher standards of living and cultural and educational cooperation. It will be an organization which binds the members to treat the administration of non-self-governing peoples as a sacred trust; to protect those peoples from exploitation and to develop self-government and free political institutions...
General George S. Patton Jr. fought a spirited rearguard action against criticisms of his unco-soldierly remarks. To Patton's public "Goddamits," Los Angeles' Rev. Don Householder had cried: "Never in our country's history has there been such a profanation. . . . We trust that the General ... will hereafter remember his moral obligation to the youth of America." After the General spoke of the next war before a Sunday School class in San Gabriel, Calif., Stars & Stripes howled: "Please, General . . . just sort of hold your tongue at least until after that San Francisco conference." The General finally grumbled...
...Pont de Nemours Co., Inc., long a favorite target for trust busters, had been indicted nine times in the last three years on antitrust charges. It has been widely pictured as a participant in international cartels ranging from titanium to dyestuffs. Last week's acquittal in Newark's Federal Court cleared the company (along with its board chairman Lammot...