Word: trusts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Your article on the "Puzzle Trust" in the issue of Oct. 31 was surely entertaining but one paragraph was so abridged as to be quite misleading. Since I was a participant in the Graphic's cinema title contest and was subpoenaed as a member of the so-called "Puzzle Trust" that was unearthed here in New York. I should be able to throw additional light on the matter...
...trust" can be composed of 1,000 people scattered all over these United States, most of whom have neither seen nor corresponded with one another, but all of whom delight in solving proverb, booklovers' and cinema picturegames, then this large group is a "trust...
Since puzzle solving is the hobby of many professional and business people they eventually become quite expert in this line and accordingly their names are usually among the winners in contests all over the country. When the Graphic announced a $50,000 picturegame these expers of the alleged "Puzzle Trust" joyfully entered the contest and won most all of the big awards...
...wanted you to see what these worthwhile people think of you, how they trust you, how they approve of you and your works, how they ratify your judgment and believe in things you believe, how they respect your prudence, admire your courage, and how they stand by you as a national leader in whatever course you may choose to outline for your future course...
...great banquet in Manhattan last week to Professor Edwin Robert Anderson Seligman of Columbia University. Invited to attend were more than 500 potent U. S. businessmen, financiers & economists-from Vice President Norman I. Adams of the National Shawmut Bank, Boston, to President L. S. Zimmerman of the Maryland Trust Co., Baltimore. They came less to eat than to hear Professor Seligman explain the first thorough analysis of the installment selling problem...