Word: distrust
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...often for political expedience, upheld unpopular causes: a U. S. bank, peace with England in 1812, the Missouri Compromise, the Fugitive Slave Law. More, his cold dignity repelled warmhearted U. S. crowds. Thinks Biographer Fuess: "It may be that the American people admire, but have a deep-rooted distrust of orators. His very fluency made them wary. He was a man who talked too much...
...Harvard would gain nothing by a relapse into its former silence, allowing the press to misrepresent the University because of faulty information. On the other hand, such instances as that of yesterday succeed in reopening a breach, too recently closed, which can lead in the end only to mutual distrust. The Fourth Estate, in protesting against Harvard's indifference to the public, has seemingly forgotten that it, too, has its responsibilities. There are two sides to this particular bargain...
Thus far the two Houses have been little more than enlarged Freshman dormitories with the similarity between the old and the new residential systems particularly evident in a distrust of the common rooms. If these rooms of the Houses are to prove attractive to the undergraduate they must become more than mere reading rooms where magazines are provided for the entertainment of the residents. The failure of the Freshman Halls to bring any variation in the monotonous round of dormitory existence other than a spiritless smoker once during the year should have taught the University the futility of continuing...
...failure because of impurities. He had the brilliant idea of extracting the impurities, making commercial use of them. In 1890, then 24, he went to Midland, bought with his partner a brine-well. He formed Midland Chemical Co., paid his board bill with stock. Midlanders viewed him with distrust and in 1900 brought suit charging that the Dow plants depreciated property, filled the town with vile and injurious odors. But by then Dow Chemical had been formed to take over Midland Chemical and another company Dr. Dow had formed; was well able to defend itself. Since 1900, Midlanders have changed...
Confident of the ultimate outcome of chain methods was Silas Hardy Strawn, chairman of Montgomery, Ward & Co. "The agencies attempting to create public distrust in the chain methods of distribution should and must be counteracted," said he. ". . . An enlightened public will be a friend and not an enemy." He carefully examined the legal end of the situation, said legislation against chain stores is in almost all. cases unconstitutional...