Word: trust
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harold W. Dodds, president of the university, said the late David Mahany, a member of the class of 1907, left the bulk of his estate in trust to his widow, Mrs. Georgiana S. Mahany, with the provision that it go to the university on her death...
...Seattle it was soon decided that the only way to set up a successful program -backed by newspapers, radio and TV-was to make it free. To foot the bills the city's United Good Neighbors' Polio Trust Fund donated $185,000, the local chapter of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis gave $30,000, and the county public health department agreed to pay for all vaccine used for persons under 20. Hoping to needle some 300,000 people in two weeks, the King County (Seattle) Medical Society rounded up 1,000 of its 1,200 members, plus...
...himself and his country, is more and more becoming a role in a Greek tragedy, its protagonist hopelessly playing out his own doom. He still has the possibility of creating further disasters, but no soundly bottomed hope of raising up his people, for he has denied himself the trust of those who could help him fulfill his original dream. He can only call in the help of Communists who, for the price of helping him, will enslave his people. Even as talk of a "successor" circulates in cafes and chancelleries, there are some who regret that a man with such...
...Stilt arrived in Kansas, the university field house has been sold out for almost every game. Chancellor Franklin Murphy goes into weekend seclusion to avoid rabid fans "prepared to trade their honor for two seats." Even if Wilt Chamberlain never achieves his tremendous promise, he will easily earn the trust fund that wealthy Kansas alumni are rumored to have put aside as his graduation present...
...puzzled even his closest friends. "They think it a huge joke," he once complained. "It's the most serious proposal of my life." His will proved that he meant what he said: aside from some personal bequests, the bulk of his estate was to go into a charitable trust to finance the design of a new phonetic alphabet for the English-speaking people. But just in case the courts might throw out such a trust, Shaw named three alternate beneficiaries who would divide his money between them: the British Museum, the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and the National...