Word: trust
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fretting over how posterity would remember him, the late George Bernard Shaw left his country cottage at Ayot St. Lawrence to a national trust in the hope that the place would survive him as a shrine. But he left not a shilling for its upkeep. For a year after G.B.S.'s death in 1950, visitors came in swarms at two bob a head, and made the place selfsupporting. But as memories of Shaw faded, so did attendance. Last week the trustees announced that the Ayot cottage, not hallowed enough to pay its own way as a monument, will...
...statement reads: "It is shocking to see how persons in positions of trust have abandoned logical persuasion as a form of discourse and have instead resorted to demagogic talents for the spreading of calumny and confusion...
There are also two bankers. Wil liam Shacklette Ray, Loomis School, is in the credit department of the First National Bank of Memphis, Tenn. And William Elliot Vauclain, of Haverford School, is now an assistant trust investment officer for the Fidelity-Philadelphia Trust Co., in Philadelphia...
...Molotov's aside to An thony Eden: "What matters is not elections, but what kind of government comes out of the elections. We could not toler ate a government that would be hostile to us . . ." The other was John Foster Dulles': "We were willing to place trust in the German and Austrian peoples. The Soviet Union was not . . . The Atlantic Charter to which we all subscribed called for 'freedom from fear.' Today, unhappily, the dominant note in much of the world is 'fear of freedom...
Last Christmas Day, Uncle Chen said to a meeting of Assemblymen: "My creed is the common good instead of personal self-interest, fellowship and cooperation instead of ill-will and intrigue, mutual trust instead of mutual suspicion, and encouragement for one another instead of blame...