Word: trusts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Most elderly graduates of colleges big and little can remember rushing to chapel in the cold of early Winter-mornings, sleepy, reluctant and with much trust to a long overcoat; but not all of them can remember that they profited largely from the performance of that stern duty. At the time they tried to agree with the prevailing belief, that anything painful was virtuous, but not all of them succeeding in doing it, and such as didn't still have their original doubts N. Y. Times
Plans were drawn by Pellegrino Tibaldi. They were considered impossibly sumptuous, but the Holy Father said: "We do not ignore the grave difficulties of the work, but considering its great necessity, we trust and shall always continue to trust in Divine Providence, which will not abandon us. ... It is a great imprudence to allow oneself to be conquered by the first difficulties; and in works having to do with divine worship, we must begin with great magnificence, leaving to posterity and above all to Divine Providence, the task of completing them...
...latest alleged trust to come under Federal surveillance deals in chickens, and is named the Live Poultry Dealers' Protective Association. This organization must now be as good as its title, and protect itself against the charge of being organized and of operating for the purpose of fixing the price of poultry. The claim is made that the Association is so large that the price set by its Price Committee affects all factors in the trade from producer to consumer, in all our large cities...
...President of the alleged Chicken Trust is Samuel Goldstein; Vice-President, David Hirschhorn; Secretary, Julius Kastein; Assistant Treasurer, Jacob Reisner, and Financial Secretary Mendell Gordon...
...pungent characterization of the Business Men's Association plan, when a CRIMSON reporter asked his opinion of it. "It leaves no suitable shelter from rain for people who are waiting for cars in the center of the square," he said. "And the proposed exit in front of the Cambridge Trust Co. building would allow no escalator, and only a narrow stairway. The underground structure furthermore is complicated, and people would have to go under the outward bound trains to reach the inward bound. There would also be conflicting lines of traffic in the corridors...