Word: trusts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...imperturbable New Englander and onetime assistant Manhattan district attorney under Thomas Dewey, Tillinghast took over TWA in 1961 after Industrialist Howard Hughes was forced by the airline's lenders to put his 78.2% ownership of TWA in trust. When Hughes began sniping at the new administration, Tillinghast tied him into legal knots with an antitrust suit. He arranged additional financing for more jets, flew the line constantly to check on service, and shifted TWA's image from that of a tourist's to a businessman's airline...
...church leaders broke silence and formally denounced segregation. N.A.A.C.P. leaders finally heard what they had been waiting for last week in an address by Hugh D. Brown, newly chosen First Counselor to David O. McKay, 90, who is the Mormons' First President, Prophet, Seer, Revelator and Trustee-in-Trust. "We would like it to be known," said Brown, "that there is in this church no doctrine, belief or practice that is intended to deny the enjoyment of full civil rights by any person regardless of race, color or creed...
...death last January, Gaitskellites prayed that the party leadership would not go to "Little Harold," as they then called him. Most of the leading Laborites who are now in Wilson's "Shadow" Cabinet found it hard to vote for him in the party election last February. "Can you trust him?" they asked. "Gaitskell didn't." He won anyway. And under Wilson's firm control, the Labor Party is more confident of victory and more solidly united than at any other time during its twelve years in the wilderness. Wilson himself is the first Opposition leader in British...
...idle question, for Washington policymakers, receiving considerable conflicting information of their own, have relied a good deal on what they have read in the public prints. One White House adviser says that, for him, the Times's Halberstam is a more trust worthy source of battle information than all the official cables available in Washington. Hearst Editor Frank Conniff wrote that the New York Times's reporting on Viet Nam had misled the President; it was, he said, "a political time bomb," just as the Times's coverage of the Castro revolution in Cuba represented the Times...
...risk," adding that Christine might well have tried to "blackmail him or bring pressure on him to disclose secret information." Indeed, suggests Denning, Ivanov may have been under express orders from the Soviet government to blow up a scandal involving Profumo, in the hope that it would weaken U.S. trust in the government-and "he succeeded only too well...