Word: trust
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...steamship line. The company had obtained two Manhattan piers from Tammany Hall, Ives charged, by paying $250,000 to a corrupt Brooklyn judge. Harriman, testifying before a grand jury in 1930, had denied any knowledge of the transaction. "I can tell you," thundered Ives, "that you can't trust big business . . . particularly the business of the state, to a man who says he didn't know what happened to a quarter of a million dollars of his own company's money...
...changed last week. In a historic five days, the West's statesmen moved farther and faster than they had in the past two years of frustration and acrimony. West Germany began the week technically still occupied and emerged a proud new sovereign nation. As an earnest of their trust in the new Germany of Konrad Adenauer, the NATO powers welcomed Germany as an equal among equals, and entrusted it with an army which should prove the most formidable component of free Europe's defense...
...under the Manchus down to wartime imprisonment by the Japanese, he had shared the tumultuous experiences of the nation's modern awakening. As founder and president of Peking's Yenching University, the greatest of China's Christian colleges, he had won the affection and trust of a generation of rising Chinese leaders...
Charitable trusts cannot be sued by just anyone; unlike the usual trust, the beneficiary is the public and it falls on the Attorney General to bring suit. He may sue on his own initiative or give private citizens the use of his name; in either case, it is a discretionary matter. Nine Association members and Godfrey Lowell Cabot '88 prepared to ask Attorney General Fingold for permission to hall Harvard into Court. Support of this suit, in fact, was the immediate point of the Association. Numbering roughly 600, its members reflect twenty-eight states, D. C. and Canada. Officers...
...opinions is narrower than at the dispute's earlier stages; with the concession of January 1953, there is less to argue about. The primary differences, however, still seem to stem from different conceptions of what, exactly, the Arboretum is. The arguments in Harvard's favor seem to view the trust as a fund with a set of purposes attached, while the petitioners focus on what is going to happen to those 265 acres in Jamaica Plain. The Association sees only the collapse of an identifiable unit, the disappearance of a unique institution among the folds of the Harvard empire...