Word: trusts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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During that period, much of the Kremlin's information about the Chinese came from Kao Rang, who was then the representative of the Chinese Politburo and the strongman in Manchuria. To win Mao's trust and friendship, Khrushchev says, Stalin gave Mao reports by the Soviet ambassador in Manchuria about his conversations with Kao, saying, "Here, you might be interested in these...
...latest convert, Tania-Patty, was surely the most unlikely terrorist recruit of all. Granddaughter of the legendary publisher William Randolph Hearst, she grew up with four sisters in a 22-room house in the suburb of Hillsborough. At Berkeley, she was partly supported with $300 a month from a trust fund and credit cards in her father's name. Patty had never demonstrated much interest in politics. Those who know her describe her as reserved and strongwilled. Says Brother-in-Law Jay Bosworth: "I wouldn't characterize her as naive, or as exceptionally worldly. But she was very independent...
...price of their product or service. Though cash customers do not benefit from the credit system, they in effect help to subsidize it because they pay the higher prices too. The situation smacked of price fixing to the nonprofit Consumers Union. So last February it brought an anti-trust suit against the most prestigious credit card company of all, American Express Co., charging that the company forbade merchants who accepted its card to give discounts to cash customers...
...struggle and contemplation." He began by leaving part of it to youths struggling for peace in Northern Ireland and others who are working among Asian and African immigrants in Britain. "I would go to the ends of the earth," he said, "to tell and tell again of my trust in the new generation...
...workers in the textile mills of Lawrence struck in protest against a cut in hourly pay imposed by the wool trust. They had ample reason to rebel. Child labor was usual, disease was rampant, and both wages and working conditions were deteriorating. Soon after the strike began, Massachusetts sent in militia to harass the workers and to break the Industrial Workers of the World strike. Large numbers of these troops were Harvard students whom President Lowell released from finals in order to protect the property of his fellow textile magnates. As an aristocratic Boston observer noted at the time. "They...