Word: trust
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Since they are just bookkeeping items anyway, take out of the budget the $1 billion in interest the Government pays itself on bonds held by its own agencies and the $2.3 billion it allocates to its own trust funds...
...High Commissioner of the Pacific Trust Territory (southwest Pacific islands administered by the U.S. as trustee for the United Nations): Frank Elbert Midkiff, 65. Born in Anna, Ill. Midkiff went to Hawaii at 25 to take a job as an English teacher and athletic coach at an insular college, stayed on to become a businessman, school principal. His new bailiwick, scattered over an expanse of ocean wider than the U.S., consists of 2,130 small, rainy, tropical islands with a total area of 687 sq. mi. and a total native population of 58,000. The territory's value...
Yoshida's intraparty troubles stem from a promise he made in 1946, when he took over the party presidency from Ichiro Hatoyama, who had just been declared by Douglas MacArthur to be ineligible for any office of public trust. Yoshida assured Hatoyama that he would step down if Hatoyama should ever be eligible to hold office again. When the occupation ended, Hatoyama was free to play politics, but Yoshida hedged. Last fall, when the Liberals won a slim majority in the Diet, Yoshida-who controlled the party machinery-got himself renamed Premier. Hatoyama gave in but did not give...
...September, 1950, the Corporation suspended fund-raising when the Overseers Visiting Committee of the Arnold Arboretum started to raise legal difficulties as to whether the transfer of the herbaria would not violate arboretum trust funds...
...explains why the five gentlemen and their 85 million countrymen are entitled to "American responsibility to see Japan through this tense period, insuring the safety no longer of an apprentice, but of a respected equal with great potency for good. The Japanese give much promise of justifying such a trust...