Word: trust
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Humphrey Bogart: "I got a helluva good racket of my own ... I don't have the time and I don't trust the medium yet . . . You watch that stuff some time . . . Instead of being five foot eleven, you're four foot three. I'll wait until they get straightened out." Van Heflin feels that a series of weekly TV shows, for a movie actor, "can very easily mean the complete destruction of his career in motion pictures. The audience gets used to getting something for nothing, and then does not want to turn around...
INVESTMENT bankers can expect less SEC red tape. Among pending reforms: 1) shortening of the 20-day waiting period before better-grade debt securities can be sold; 2) shorter registration forms for investment trust and high-grade bonds...
...prove their charge, the Government lawyers probed practices in the banking business dating back to the 1912 Pujo investigation of the "money trust." But, as exasperated Judge Medina pointed out repeatedly, they failed to produce a single instance of deliberate conspiracy. Finally, after 16 months, the Government got down to the key part of its case: an attempt to show that the bankers had invented the syndicate system in 1915. But one of the two Government witnesses, Harold L. Stuart, 72, head of Chicago's huge Halsey, Stuart & Co., directly contradicted the Government's contentions. He said that...
...College students are mature on social matters. But a University should be maturity's breading place, and this University has traditionally relied on social independence as one means toward this. If they want to foster this maturity, the Masters should not worry as much about how far they can trust their students, as about how they can make them more trustworthy. It is far better to extend freedom on the basis of performance than to limit it as the result of fears...
...suggestion came: 'You are alone. It is 4° above zero and Saturday noon. No help will come before Monday' . . . Fear swept over me ... I was trying to twist the bolts out with my fingers . . . Finally I realized I must stop these efforts and trust wholly in God ... I waited quietly, and it came to me, 'Take out the pin to the hinge.' The argument came, 'What good will that do, the bolts hold the lid.' But I followed the voice...