Word: trusts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...black cord. His manner is suave and expansive. His voice, when it breaks into portentous periods, is solemn and his words are chosen from the old school of eloquence and denunciation. Ever and again in previous Congresses he rose to make interminable forensic attacks on the money trust, on the power interests, on this and that type of oppression of the poor, the weak and the farmer...
...There is not anybody opposing it [the Muscle Shoals project] of any considerable influence except the power trust and the fertilizer trust. They are fighting it, and fighting it to the death. They attacked my colleague [Mr. Underwood] two years ago and insulted him with their editorial attacks. They have insulted me or would have done so if I did not consider the source. But what do I care about these little hired hickory-nut heads sticking something in their pockets, and some little irresponsible whelp going out and writing something hid behind a screen reflecting...
...contract called for; that cabins had been cluttered with bottles of water from the River Jordan, from Red, Dead, Galilee Seas (bidding, at the end of the trip, sent the price per bottle to 50); that at Constantinople many failed to see the mosques' interiors because they would not trust their shoes to Moslem doormen...
...director of the Union Pacific, of the Illinois Central, besides being chairman of the W. A. Harriman & Co., Inc., of the American Ship & Commerce Corp., of the American-Hawaiian Steamship Corp., of the United American Lines, Inc., of the Merchant Shipbuilding Corp., and director of the Guaranty Trust Co., of New York, of the Wells Fargo Co., of the American Railway Express Co., of the National Surety Co.) If he does so, he will be truly a transportation amphibian...
...enter the War against the side which would refuse reasonable terms. He assumed that Germany would be the one to refuse, and he believed that it was in the interest of the U. S. to see militarism crushed and democracy set up in Germany. But the Allies did not trust Germany and feared that Wilson would not bring the U. S. into the War even if Germany refused equitable terms. House felt that it was necessary to have Allied consent to the plan...