Word: trust
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only a week had gone by since Congress formally began its long-threatened investigations of U.S. colleges and universities. But presidents and professors throughout the nation were already stewing and seething in anger. The men running the investigations were hardly the type that teachers could trust. They had been ruthless sluggers in the past, and they gave no indication that they had reformed. Last week, at the Atlantic City convention of the American Association of School Administrators, the investigators took some hard-fisted counter-punches-delivered in no uncertain terms by a woman. Mrs. Agnes Meyer, wife of Chairman Eugene...
When specific treaties appear, that is the time to ratify or reject. To prejudge them and set stiff conditions destroys much of their value, since by nature treaties rely on mutual trust and presumed freedom to bargain. The advantage of swift international agreement outweighs the needless caution of double-check treaties...
...Insurance," the third topic, will be presented by Hauers, second vice president of the John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company in Boston. Hauers is also vice president and director of Van Strum & Towne, Investment Counsellors. He is head of the Estate and Trust Department of Moody's Investors Service...
...would glow with good wine and talk. When he wanted to know the proper temperature for a wine or when it should be decanted, he was not satisfied with the opinion of only one expert. He wrote to ten, averaged up their answers and acted accordingly. Nor did he trust the accuracy of only one thermometer. Each week he faithfully took the average reading of three...
Died. Elbert Duncan Thomas, 69, scholarly New Deal Senator from Utah (1932-50) a sponsor of the G.I. Bill of Rights, and Truman-appointed High Commissioner of the U.S. trust territories in the Pacific; of pulmonary infarction; in Honolulu. A benign Ph. D., Thomas served five years as a Mormon missionary in Japan, taught Latin, Greek, political science and Oriental history at the University of Utah, wrote six books (Sukui No Michi. Chinese Political Thought, The Four Fears, etc.), doodled in Japanese...