Word: trusts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Trust Major General Lejeune to look out for the Marines; he has spent more than 30 of his 57 years in the Corps and his life has been bound up in it. A Louisianian by birth, son of a Confederate captain of cavalry, he has lived with the Marine Corps through its growth and travails. During the Spanish War, he commanded the Marine Guard first on the Cincinnati, then on the Massachusetts. With 400 men, he camped in the Panama Canal Zone, in 1903-04, while Panama extracted her freedom from Colombia. In the Cuban revolution of 1912, he commanded...
...conventions. Last year, he organized the Hugue-not-Walloon celebration, selling $25,000 worth of tercentenary coins, for which he was bitterly assailed as an "unscrupulous propagandist." He it is who must keep the 30 churches harmoniously in line. Says he to one of the churches: "You must trust the other 29," and it does. He makes the Council's voice to speak, its mimeograph wheels to go round...
...made to secure a third of this sum by floating a sterling loan in London under the leadership of J. Henry Schroder & Co. there. The remaining $10,000,000 will be obtained by a U. S. bond issue, to be floated by Manhattan bankers, including Speyer & Co., the Equitable Trust, Chase Securities Corp., Blair & Co. and the Bank of the Manhattan Co. The German roads are organized by the Experts' Plan under one company-the German State Railroad Co.-and comprise 33,000 miles of track, along with 31,000 locomotives, 70,000 passenger cars and 750,000 freight...
...Chicago University. She is third partner in the law firm of Kirsch, Edelman and Brandeis. She scorns feminine foibles in dress and manner, works hard, studies harder, plays little. On levity, on publicity, she pours disdain. She sits late, rises early. As special assistant district attorney she prosecuted anti-trust cases for the State of New York. "My daughter," says Justice Brandeis, "is a self-made...
...Events of recent months have made me keenly aware that the time is not far distant when I must lay down my trust for others to carry forward. When one comes to close grips with the eternal things, there comes a new sense of relative values; and the less worthy things lose significance...