Word: trusts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second go-around it was about to vote the hard cash in an appropriation bill and was flirting with a tough $3.6 billion, recommended by its Appropriations Committee. Things looked so bad, explained Martin, that pushing for more might result in less. Far better to take the $3.6 billion, trust the Senate to raise the ante, and then try the House with a compromise...
...Never trust a guy who smokes a pipe. They sit around and look thoughtful, but all the time they're figuring how they can steal a hot stove...
...auditor's check supposedly signed by him was incorrectly endorsed "J. C. Reuter." Moreover, said George P. Coutrakon, state's attorney for Sangamon County (county seat: Springfield), many of the checks in question had been cashed in "suspicious circumstances" at Chicago's Southmoor Bank & Trust Co., which, as a state bank, was under Auditor Hodge's jurisdiction...
...Amsterdam. They were there to introduce their eldest daughter and heir presumptive, pretty Princess Beatrix, to the city fathers of Amsterdam as their nation's future Queen. She came of age to rule (18) six months ago. "I shall prepare myself for the task which I hope and trust lies before me in a yet far-distant future," Beatrix had promised when she became an official member of the State Council. In most kingdoms monarchs reign until their deaths, but in The Netherlands retirement in favor of the royal heir has become expected. Ex-Queen Wilhelmina, still alive...
...China. Nehru argued for closer cooperation with the Communists, while St. Laurent and Pearson bluntly opposed it. "Don't be fooled," the Canadians warned the Indians. "There's really no new look there. It's the same old look, and just as dangerous. Don't trust them an inch." At the conference sessions held in the Cabinet room at No. 10 Downing Street, Commonwealth relations with the Communist bloc were the main topic. Again the Asians argued for a softer policy, while the Canadians firmly opposed any letdown. At times the vigor of St. Laurent...