Word: trusteeship
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...trustees must deal. . . . The theory of devaluation . . . implies a transfer of values from the bondholder to the common stockholder. . . . The question of currency inflation is one of constant discussion in Government and the Press and, while not at the moment more than a menace, it is one which cautious trusteeship must be in a position to meet. The record of similar institutions in Europe under currency inflation is before us, where their endowments were largely wiped...
...alliance between Mayor Wilson and Dr. Mitten. As Deputy Controller, Mayor Wilson had forced P. R. T. into the trusteeship and driven Dr. Mit ten's father out of the company. Well aware, therefore, was the Mayor that the Wilson-Mitten alliance might be interpreted as a step toward the return of dis credited Mitten Management...
...President of the Commonwealth), the Grand Mastery of the Grand Lodge of Free & Accepted Masons of the Philippine Islands, the presidency of the Nationalista Consolidado Party which runs the Philippines almost as Tammany used to run New York City, the presidency of Manila Railroad Co. and Manila Hotel, a trusteeship in the University of the Philippines and a membership in the Wack Wack Golf Club. He has also earned the esteem of thousands of Nationalist Filipinos who address him respectfully as "Don Manuel" and hail him as the Father of His Country...
...single stone it would be second only to the Star of Africa which was cut from the Cullinan stone and is now a British Crown jewel. Dealer Winston, mindful that the U. S. has no diamond to compare with it in size,* assumed an air of national trusteeship, said he would carry it to Manhattan himself on a U. S. boat. Said he: "I do not think the American people would like it brought on a vessel of any other nation...
...openly to rupture the Treaty of Versailles. He has not won for Germany a single scrap of territory, not even Danzig, much less the Polish Corridor. If the Saar, which, before Hitler, was considered all but in Germany's bag, should vote next week to remain under League trusteeship or to join France, the blow to Nazi prestige inside Germany would be titanic...