Word: trust
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sees it, the soft green leaf may well be a nettle in disguise, and danger lurks on all sides. It is hard to trust people-"If they slap me on the back, maybe the next time they slap me they'll have a knife." On the other hand, so few people are really grateful to him: "It's not that I need credit. But somewhere along the line the dog should be patted on the head." If some neighborhood toughs honk their horns outside his house to annoy him, he speaks of being "hounded by degenerates...
WEST COAST BANK MERGER will unite the California Bank and First Western Bank & Trust Co., satellite of huge Firstamerica Corp., to form giant California Bank, with $2.25 billion in resources, 165 branches...
...have-a-parley-at-the-summit propaganda to the U.S. public via TV press conferences, businessmen's dinners and cultural wingdings with such sincere style that he got the nickname of "Smiling Mike" (TIME, March 17 et seq.). Sample exchange: Q. How can we trust you on stopping nuclear tests when you violated the armistice in Korea? A. I think we should believe each other-that is the only...
Edgewater was only one of the marks. In Huntington, N.Y., the bigger (16 offices)-and presumably more experienced -Security National Bank had also been taken by Belle, to the tune of $475,000. And in McKeesport, Pa., the Peoples Union Bank & Trust Co. announced that it too had handed a Belle company $200,000 without security, filed suit against his sagging corporations for repayment of the loan principal plus 5½% penalty...
...quickly. A month ago Belle apparently started systematically looting the companies. As a sample of his thoroughness, he even tried to get the employees' pension funds of one of the companies, Troop Water Heater Co. Though the bank that held the funds in trust refused to go along, Belle got partial revenge. All but about $900 of the final week's paychecks for Troop, amounting to $4,500, bounced because Belle withdrew the funds before he fled...