Word: trusting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Peek Up a Rope. If necessary, he will twist an arm. Last year he called John Sonnett, who was taking over the Justice Department's anti-trust division, to point out that he was accustomed to getting anti-trust scoops. Retorted Sonnett: "Aw, go peek up a rope." Sonnett was punished with rough rides on the Merry-Go-Round. The column is equally open about rewarding those who do cooperate: some newsmen spot Pearson's sources simply by seeing who gets his backpats...
...money came from the George F. Baker Trust...
...Baker trust was set up under the will of the late George F. Baker '99, former New York Banker, who gave $1 million as an endowment followed the 1924 gift from his father of $5 million for the actual construction of the school's buildings...
...dear God, please bless the Pennsylvania Railroad, the Girard Trust Co., and the Republican Party." Thus, says Author Struthers Burt, the children of Philadelphia's rich once closed their bedtime prayers. Ever since ex-Mayor Benjamin W. Richards helped found the Girard in 1835 (naming it after Philanthropist Stephen Girard), the bank has been one of Philadelphia's strongest pillars of good business and decorum. It was the first trust company in its district to join the Federal Reserve System; it thought it should, "from the standpoint of patriotism." In its vaults lie the securities that make...
...course it was an Irishman who said: "Naturally the sun never sets on the British Empire. Who would trust it in the dark...