Word: trusted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Town's first act survives largely because of audience interest and trust in the Yankee ingenuity of the Stage Manager. One believes that there is a "real" town, which he is groping to describe, and one is willing to forgive the pedantic local professor who gives the geological facts about the town, the "questions from the audience," and the rambling generalizations of Editor Webb of The Sentinel. Like a New England town meeting, the play has a chairman, an avowed purpose, and a sense that everyone in the audience must cooperate...
...sales taxes, and the Democrats balked; 2) the Democrats tried to hike the debt limit to $50 million, and the Republicans balked. Last week, even though the evenly divided house (55 Republicans, 55 Democrats) finally okayed a Soapy plan to mortgage the state's $50 million veterans' trust fund to raise ready cash, the G.O.P.-run state senate turned it down...
Less obvious but more pervasive was the university's effect upon the state's business community, dominated by Chapel Hill alumni. Under the watchful eye of a benign oligarchy (R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., Wachovia Bank & Trust Co., Duke Power Co. and the "textile aristocracy"), North Carolina has been developed with uncommon imagination. Business leaders have endowed well-paid professorial chairs, set up string-free foundations, protected professors back at the alma mater from the political censorship common to state-supported Southern schools...
...wife or his remaining son, 14-year-old Michel. He considered the verdict an "affront," complained that some of the witnesses had hinted that Alain got only what he deserved, railed against the "bandit" Amiel, whose life was supposedly dedicated to children and who had betrayed his trust...
...Morgan-Guaranty Trust merger got final approval from Federal Reserve Board. New bank is fourth largest in U.S., has resources of more than $4 billion, capital funds of more than $500 million...