Word: trust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hunt's promptly sought an injunction, sued the union for treble damages, charged that the union had violated the Sherman Anti-Trust Act by combining to restrain trade. Ruling on an appeal, the Supreme Court, in a bitterly argued 5-to-4 decision, threw the company's case out the window...
...Milton S. Eisenhower, 45, president of Kansas State College, appointed last week as special assistant to the Secretary of Agriculture; Edgar Eisenhower, a Tacoma, Wash, attorney; Earl Eisenhower, a Charleroi, Pa. electrical engineer; and Arthur Eisenhower, vice president of Kansas City's Commerce Trust...
...Three meeting was the main fact to Harry Truman-"to meet and talk and trust each other." He had his plans ready, his team picked (Stettinius, Hopkins, Jimmy Byrnes and the Combined Chiefs of Staff...
...publication of Wells's Outline in 1921 did factual books of general or topical interest begin to rival romance and adventure. But topicality, whether in fact or fiction, has proved no more certain an index to popularity than literary merit. With its sensational expose of the "meat trust" in 1906, Upton Sinclair's The Jungle created a furore worthy of Zola and led directly to the passage of the Pure Food and Drugs Act. But on the year's best-seller list it was handily topped by the newest novels of three perennial favorites, Winston Churchill, Owen...
...Prayer Book still commits it to the ground from which it is supposed to come, where it is to rest until the archangel's trumpet summons it to rise incorruptible. We once heard of a funeral which seems far more Christian. The body was buried-or, we trust, cremated-as soon as possible, with no publicity, and a week or so later a memorial service was held in which the friends and relatives of the deceased gathered, not about a dead body but a living spirit...