Word: trusts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...headway toward a possible political goal: edging out his fellow Californian Dick Nixon for the Republican presidential nomination in 1960.* Politicking or not, Knowland had built up a position that was likely to make him more friends than enemies. It would appeal to 1) the conservative Republicans, who instinctively trust and admire Knowland and have mistrusted the U.N. from the start, and 2) the once-trusting U.N. partisans who have lost faith in the U.N. since its vote against Britain, France and Israel during the invasion of Egypt, and are now as distressed about the "double standard" as Bill Knowland...
...Committee office from parents, from Parent-Teacher Associations, and even from teachers' and masters' associations. Sample letters read: "We disapprove... of this open, callous disregard of the best interests of our school children;" "You are destroying the confidence of parents, teachers, children, and masters;" "You have broken a sacred trust placed in you by citizens...
...book reviews for the New York Herald Tribune since 1926. Novelist and Editor Dorothy Graffe Van Doren, Mark's wife, wrote and produced broadcasts for the OWI during World War II. The prodigious output of this closely knit quartet soon earned it the nickname of "the Van Doren trust...
Since the end of World War II, the Van Doren trust has grown bigger yet as the children of the five Van Doren brothers, nine in all, came of age and began to produce children of their own-17 of them...
...press-agentry: Trigger-happy Cuban Dictator Gerardo Machado, Nazi Germany's Tourist Information Office, President Roosevelt's Birthday Balls for infantile paralysis), in 1946 was fined $5,000 in a federal court for conspiring with the A. & P. chain-store firm to violate the Sherman Anti-Trust Act (he set up dummy trade and citizens' groups, helped keep in committee a New York State tax bill that would have cost A. & P. $2,000,000 a year). A Byoir maxim: "If the truth doesn't sound believable, don't tell...