Word: trusts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...widespread alarm-not so much for what it said as for what people thought it said. Misled by headlines, many thought that the court had all but ordered an end to all ties between government and religion, even chaplains in the armed services and the motto "In God We Trust" on the currency. Such fears are, to be sure, given some substance by a small but militant fringe that insists upon a total erasure of all traces of religion in government. Last week, for example, the American Civil Liberties Union brought suit in a California state court...
...town. Mott, who had been trained as a mechanical engineer, was president of the Weston-Mott Co., manufacturers of wheels and axles. General Motors bought him out, made him a director and, in the process, the largest single stockholder in the corporation. Mott still owns outright, or controls in trust, another 800,000 or so G.M. shares, controls several banks, ten municipal water companies, four department stores and a sugar company...
...smile faded quickly as Kierans presented his letter, which began, "The financial capitals of the world have just about had enough from Canada." In effect, the letter called the tax discriminatory, prohibitive and unworkable-"complete and utter nonsense." It was, he continued, "an axe to murder the record of trust and confidence that has grown up over the years." As Kierans talked to Gordon, his Montreal office distributed 1,200 copies of the letter in English, and another 600 in French, to every company president with shares listed on the exchanges and to every Cabinet minister...
...introduced to both Jack and his wife, Valerie Hobson. "She was very charming," said Christine, "but seemed wary of me." Next day, Christine brought Ivanov out to Cliveden, and the Russian and Profumo held a swimming race, which Jack only won by cheating. "That will teach you to trust the British government," Profumo told Ivanov. Later that same day, he asked Christine for her telephone number; she told him to get it from Ward...
...offices in Japan, plus branches in Honolulu and New York. Its volume of stock transactions in 1962 reached $8 billion. In fact, Nomura handles nearly 20% of Japan's entire stock business, 16.6% of all Japanese bond underwriting, 23.1% of its stock underwriting and 30.5% of all investment trust business. Its modern building in the heart of Tokyo boasts electronic data equipment, Japan's second biggest vault, and closed circuit TV that links it with 38 main branches in Tokyo. Last year, the firm made $6,100,000 in profits...