Word: trusts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From a muddle of politics Senator Walshs voice rings forth demanding an investigation of the aluminum trust. Had the Montann Democrat not started the successful scent of Teapot Dome, one would be inclined to jeer at his snooping propensities. Among politicians, it is whispered that another sensational exposure will put Senator Walsh in line for the Democratic presidential nomination...
Illinois Merchants Trust Company, as executor of the last will and testament of Victor F. Lawson, announces the sale of the Chicago Daily News to Walter Strong and his associates, today...
...never married. Mr. Lawson's wife, childless, became an eccentric recluse. Both men realized the difficulty of passing on titanic newspaper properties. Mr. Munsey consulted friends. Mr. Lawson consulted nobody. Soon after his funeral, when the will was taken out of Mr. Lawson's vault, at the Illinois Merchants Trust Co., it was found that the Bank had been made trustee of the Daily News, which it was to run in the interests of charities and Congregational Church activities. Mr. Lawson, like many Scandinavians, was deeply religious?in this differing from Mr. Munsey, who was frankly worldly. But a bank...
What is so noxious as a Trust? When the late Theodore Roosevelt was shaking his Big Stick at the meat trusts, the steel trusts, the oil trusts, every newspaper in the land published a picture of a Trust so that people would know one when they saw it. A Trust, cartoonists made clear, was a bloated figure with a pork barrel body, huge watchchain (labeled "Profits"), smoking with incredibly gross lips a big cigar (labeled "Luxury"), and crushing beneath its heel a pathetic lizard-sized person (labeled "Consumer"). Since 1905, that figure has appeared more and more rarely, but last...
...backers are the trustees of the American Fund for Public Service-that lump of money which was made into a trust fund by earnest young Charles Garland of Boston, who inherited $1,000,000 and refused to accept it because he was that rarest of idealists, a socialist who applied his precepts to himself. The fund has been nearly doubled by careful investments. Its custodians stated that they were ready to devote $17,000 a year "or more" to this publication, with the condition that the founders raise an additional $10,000 a year. And what will this magazine...