Word: trust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...floor of the House last week he introduced a resolution to set aside the days between Thanksgiving and Christmas as a time for nation wide Bible-reading. Congressman Voorhis' reason for wanting an official stamp on such a private activity: "in order that 'in God we trust,' as an expression of our national life, may hold new and vital meaning for all our citizens...
After eight years, the legendary trust-busting suit against the Aluminum Co. of America quietly, and suddenly, ended last week. In Manhattan's U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, a special panel of three judges, sitting for the U.S. Supreme Court, held that Alcoa was a monopoly. Few years ago this would have been the biggest trust-busting news since Standard Oil was broken up. Now, in the light of war changes in the aluminum industry, it had little more than academic meaning...
...help him; a Goebbelsesque Gestapoman (George Coulouris) who gets thrown down an elevator shaft; an actress (Andrea King) who will help or betray anyone to keep herself safe; a handsome anti-fascist fugitive (Helmut Dantine) who gets help from her, and kills her when he can no longer trust her; a scientist (Peter Lorre) demoralized by Nazi torture; a stool pigeon (Faye Emerson) and an aviator (Kurt Kreuger) who discovers that Miss Emerson's lover is a Jew. Best scene: General Massey, interrupted at his shaving, trying to accept fatal news with dignity when his face is covered with...
...Sever, who died a childless widower in 1941, directed in his will that $1,622,-482 of his fortune be used to establish a "technological school" in his native Missouri. As soon as the will was published, six Missouri colleges put in a claim. The Continental Illinois National Bank & Trust Co. of Chicago, Mr. Sever's trustee, ran for cover, leaving the Cook County Court to appoint a three-man committee to interpret the will. On the premise that Mr. Sever's intention was to set up a new school and not to expand one already existing...
Meanwhile, a lawyer appointed by the court to represent Sever's unborn heirs* figured that, if the fund is not sufficient to establish a new school, the trust has failed. He, therefore, also plans to file a petition next week, asking that the money go to Sever's living heirs...