Word: trusts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...passed in 1920) "the Interstate Commerce Commission shall as soon as practicable prepare and adopt a plan for the consolidation of the railway properties of the continental United States into a limited number of systems." Under this law the Commission must act just as if the Sherman Anti-Trust law were nullified by its provisions. Later the Supreme Court will decide whether such combinations are legal. The Court may hold that the Sherman Act applies only where the combination is to the public detriment...
...General served as Pershing's supply officer during the war, and is now actively functioning in his accustomed job as Chairman of the Board of the Central Trust Company of Illinois...
...This faith of ours in the justice of American public opinion," M. Roz continued, "has been one of the principal reasons why we trust the United States. There is but a handful of French people in this country, there are few Americans in France, and our national life differs from the American, but nevertheless we know that this is true...
...schools. And we ought to be able to find, granted the boys are reliable, sufficient protection in European schools. The greatest benefit accruing to both sides would be, in my judgment, not a distinctly scholastic advancement, but a socialized understanding of the country visited. Years hence the convictions of trust engendered in an impressionable period, plus the friendships made, might enable the visitor as an influential patriot in his own land to rise up and speak with authority on behalf of a patient handling of international affairs...
...words fell on the ear like the call of a bell on a frosty morning. They were clean, terse, direct words such as an honest Angle Saxon uses. The ten-minute sermon which followed was like this, too. It was the encouraging hand grip of a man you could trust. Then the choir sang as only Dr. Davison can make a choir sing--feeling expressed in music. And everyone joined in a hymn and listened to the tense little prayer which concluded the service...