Word: trust
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...singing I'm Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover during the demonstrations for Robert A. Taft at the G.O.P. national conventions in 1948 and 1952. A member of the party's conservative wing, Bender said he regards the Senate seat he is seeking as "a special trust" because it was held by Taft. Elected to Congress seven times (six at large and once from the 23rd District), Bender has been a good vote-getter throughout Ohio, is particularly strong downstate. Democrat Burke, four-term mayor of Cleveland, who has already announced that he will try to hold...
...senior partner of ihe 104-year-old Wall Street firm of Davis Polk Wardwell Sunderland & Kiendl (95 lawyers). John W. Davis represents A.T.&T., Standard Oil Co. (N.J.), Guaranty Trust Co. of New York, International Paper Co., et al. He did not need another client, and he already owned a tea service. Davis took the segregation case partly because an old friend, South Carolina's Governor James F. Byrnes, asked him to, partly as a matter of constitutional (states' rights) and social conviction ("Race is a fact, like sex"). Some of his other friends were sorry to hear...
...Mayor Jim Hammett. Gilcrease told Hammett his tale of financial woe. Hammett saw a chance to get the Gilcrease collection for Claremore, helped get together a group of influential Oklahomans, headed by Governor Johnston Murray, in a nonprofit corporation to take over the collection as a public trust...
...himself (about 150 a year), in his own fine hand. He has a research and secretarial staff and a personal theologian, an Irish priest named Michael Browne, but, as in the days when he was a "library mouse," the Pope loves to do his own research. He will not trust a secretary to verify a quotation. Unlike his predecessor (who locked it in a closet), Pius XII uses his telephone constantly; he has a one-way line-no one can dial the Pope...
...sells oranges at the Drury Lane Theater, is not entirely pleased. "Why will you give such way to your Passion?" she chides. "When I advised you not to be guilty of Folly, I meant no more than that you should take care to be well paid beforehand, and not trust to Promises, which a man seldom keeps, after he hath had his wicked Will. And seeing you have a rich Fool to deal with, your not making a good Market will be the more inexcusable...