Word: trust
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reporter Oatis became so accustomed to signing documents that even when he was handed the draft of a letter to be sent to his wife ("Keep your hopes high and trust in the justice of the Czechoslovak people, who are working for peace"), he copied it in his own handwriting just so his wife would know he was still alive. When Oatis later stood up in court, a guard at each elbow, he simply parroted almost "word for word a script they had written for me." "Do you feel guilty?" asked the judge when he had finished...
...Urged Attorney General Herbert Brownell and state authorities to disbar any lawyer who is "presently a Communist," or who abuses his professional trust by willfully obstructive tactics in the Communist cause. Two days later, the assembly applauded Brownell's announcement that he had ordered the National Lawyers Guild to "show cause" why it should not be put on his subversive list...
...best way to keep something safe, as Edgar Allan Poe pointed out in The Purloined Letter, is to put it where everyone can see it. Taking a leaf from Poe's book, Manhattan's Manufacturers Trust Co. last week showed off the design of a "glass house" for its new midtown branch, planned so that everyone will be able to see everything...
...suggestions were not new. "It's just taking a lot of old lumber and a few nails," said he, "and making something out of them." To many a conservative Congressman, the Ruml plan seemed little more than a bookkeeping operation, reminiscent of the New Deal's brain-trust days. Admitted Ruml: "It's a bookkeeping operation, but not 'just' a bookkeeping operation. It may be that in these years the splitting of the budget is more important than splitting the atom. We can't have a free economy with high taxes...
Lemon Suds. A sudsing, powdered detergent that gives off a lemon fragrance and kills germs in the family wash was put on sale by Essential Chemicals Co. of Milwaukee. "Trust" is claimed to be safe for all washable fabrics and surfaces, is equally effective in hot or cold, hard or soft water. Price...