Word: trusts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President deftly handled a question about his attitude toward Communist political parties in Europe. He said flatly that he would "prefer that Communism would be minimal in the Western world." But the U.S., he added, has no intention of interfering in the politics of other nations. "We trust the judgment of free people in free nations to make their own determination that Communism is not in their best interest," he said. And the way to limit the growth of Communism, he emphasized, was "to make democracy work." Repeatedly, Carter urged his listeners to speak up for human rights, including...
...Last week black nationalist guerrillas attacked a convoy of 50 vehicles at Kariba, 140 miles north of Salisbury. A bus driver and three young white girls died from bullet wounds; 16 other passengers were wounded. Later, guerrillas attacked and set fire to a tiny village in the Zwimba Tribal Trust Land, killing 17 of its 22 black inhabitants...
...claim that his proposal is the more responsible of the two because it would stabilize tax rates and allow for balanced growth and not require cuts in essential services. Retorted Jarvis: "One is a political petition and the other one a people's petition. Whom do you trust, the politicians or the people? They are not the government. You are the government. We want taxes to go down, not up and not sideways...
...Washington, Miller is widely regarded as one of the best appointments that Carter has made. Private bankers commonly echo Milton W. Hudson, vice president of Manhattan's Morgan Guaranty Trust Co., who says Miller has put on "a virtuoso performance." Foreign leaders agree. Typically, West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, who has long railed at Washington for failing to appreciate the dangers of the dollar's slide, feels that he has at last found a firm ally in Miller...
...from Germany, he lived through insane inflation there in the 1920s; he likes to tell of the day that his mother handed him a billion-mark bill so that he could buy a ticket to a swimming pool. Stephen S. Gardner, a former chairman of Philadelphia's Girard Trust Bank, is an economic moderate, and Philip Coldwell, once head of the Dallas Federal Reserve Bank, is a hardline conservative who considered Arthur Burns too liberal. Philip Jackson, an Alabama mortgage banker, is noted more for his hunting prowess than his impact on policy...