Word: trusted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Henry D. Aiken, associate professor of Philosophy, whittled away at the various ways the U.S. and Russia might prevent war, and decided that the only feasible solution was through a mutual fear of its results. Mutual trust, he concluded, between the two nations is now impossible and can't exist for many years. Aiken then put some small measure of approval on the signing of the Atlantic Pact...
...offered $280 a share. For $2.9 million he reportedly snared 80% of National's stock. A few days later, the directors eased President J. Frank White up into the board chairmanship and elected a new president, Barnum L. Colton, who was brought over from the National Savings and Trust Co. There he had been a vice president and had handled the United Mine Workers' deposits, chiefly the welfare fund of some $25 million. Presumablythe fund might now be moved...
Retail Trade. Montgomery Ward & Co.'s iron-fisted Chairman Sewell Avery had bad news for stockholders: March sales were off 16.7% from 1948. Ward's biggest stockholder, Massachusetts Investors Trust (which owns 1.5% of the stock), had bad news for Avery: it would oppose his re-election as a director at next week's annual meeting. But chances were good that indestructible, 75-year-old Sewell Avery would be elected anyway...
...Euripides, Medea is seen at the last escaping to Athens with the bodies of her two children. And, probably since 431 B.C., moralists have been objecting to her apparent escape from punishment and retribution. I trust Mr. McClintic did not have this moral objection in mind when he altered the ending to have Medea merely standing over her children's corpses. The script has not been changed: she still talks of escaping, but the audience does...
...Before anything else. Money cannot buy it . . . Because a man I do not trust could not get money from me on all the bonds in Christendom...