Word: trust
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Spreading Circle. The treasurer of the South Amboy Trust Co., which Hoffman helped to found and direct and which thrived on state funds, claimed that certificates of a $300,000 state deposit were forged. Apparently Hoffman had embezzled $300,000 in state funds to cover his takings, but that was not all. Governor Meyner suspended four state officials, released 44 pages of detailed charges indicating that the scandal spread far into Jersey politics. Sample charges: ¶ Hoffman deposited $3,427,000 of state money without interest in the Trenton Trust Co., run by his friend and. fellow Republican, Mrs. Mary...
...drastic gas rationing. F47 Thunderbolts -Castillo Armas would not say where they were flying from-strafed Guatemala City and Puerto Barrios. Arbenz was embarrassingly unable to fight back. His air force, made up of a few lightly armed trainers, was no match for F-47s, even if he could trust his pilots. But four of them, at least, had defected, taking refuge in the Salvadoran Embassy...
...Recto currently opposes U.S.-and Magsaysay-policy on such crucial questions as the status of U.S. bases in the Philippines, trade terms, mutual security arrangements. One day not long ago, he enraged an American at a Lions Club meeting in Manila. The American asked if he simply refuses to trust the word of the U.S. He would trust the U.S., Recto answered, only if he had its signature on paper...
Lounging in an easy chair in the library of his Surrey estate, Britain's fireball sultan of the press, Lord Beaverbrook, who recently summed up his homilies of success in a book called Don't Trust to Luck, trotted out some more reminiscences on BBC's TV in a chat observing his 75th birthday. The Beaver paid tribute to such old departed friends as Rudyard Kipling and H. G. Wells, reaffirmed his 19th century devotion to the 19th century-brand empire. With a sentimental tremor in his voice, he closed: "This may be my last appearance...
From the Gods. The Greeks have little trust in bureaucratic schemes, but, said a Greek recalling the incident later, "here in this village, we like what we like, and when we don't like something, we speak up. Somehow, we liked the way this American spoke...