Word: trusted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...city is having trouble raising money. Last month the Cleveland Trust Co. refused to refinance some $7.8 million worth of notes. Another $15.5 million could come due in December. Standard & Poor's has suspended Cleveland's credit rating, and the state auditor declared the city's books so scrambled that they could not be audited...
...Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre drew up a broadside linking certain papabili (possible Popes) with Freemasonry. At the other end of the ideological spectrum, the U.S.-based Committee for the Responsible Election of the Pope issued in Rome a list of necessary papal traits, among them happiness, holiness and willingness to "trust others...
Much demand is coming from Americans who apparently no longer trust their own currency. Says Gold Trader Joel Goodman of Perera Co. in Manhattan "The whole clientele has changed. I'm now selling to the little investor who wants to protect his savings from the effects of inflation. Money is coming out of bank accounts, stocks and even real estate and going into gold...
...gold we trust," is Deak's philosophy, and he has made many fortunes by dealing in gilt and anxiety. Clients crowd his Hong Kong branch offices to buy newly minted "Deak Dollars," small gold coins that command premium prices because they are stamped with Deak's aquiline features. Other customers stand in line at his 42nd Street outlet in Manhattan to buy gold coins and Swiss franc traveler's checks, which they stash away as investments. At this rate, Nick Deak will be giving Karl Maiden some competition. Still other investors-widows, orphans and the simply frightened...
...Despite its cast of venal monsters and hired killers, The Godfather offered a nostalgic view of the embattled family defending and enriching itself in a ruthless world. Don Corleone even became a Pop father figure?a fascinating inversion of Walter Cronkite?whose distinctively throttled voice conveyed authority, sincerity and trust...