Word: distrusting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...show his distrust of the New Deal, Banker Nichols refused to make loans. He advised depositors to "bury your money in a tomato can." He fought the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. bitterly. He switched the bulk of the bank's assets to the most liquid thing he could think of- $100,000 bank notes, which he tucked into two safety deposit boxes...
...Discontented. The mines are short of miners, those at work are unhappy. Among factors contributing to the miners' discontent: 1) threatened conscription of youths from mining families for pit jobs; 2) the feeling that peace will bring no improvement in working conditions or security; 3) distrust of union leaders; 4) resentment caused by the Government decrees which returned men in the armed forces or war factories to the lower-paid jobs in the mines...
Marshall v. Jefferson. Professor Commager's book is subtitled "a study in Jeffersonian democracy and judicial review." For the most part it is an attack aimed at the Supreme Court. In his distrust of judges, Professor Commager echoes Thomas Jefferson's opinion that Chief Justice Marshall was "a crafty chief judge who sophisticates the law to his mind, by the turn of his own reasoning." When Jefferson became President, one of the first things he did was to nullify the Alien and Sedition Acts, which he regarded as unconstitutional. Professor Commager thinks that Jefferson was quite within...
...Hungarian radio announced: "It would be wrong to expect an atmosphere of distrust in Moscow." The Finnish radio said: "The smaller countries hope that agreement will be reached at the Moscow conference." BBC, sifting Balkan news and comment, reported that Rumania showed a panicky realization that she was on the wrong side, while Bulgaria was pinning her hopes on her refusal to declare war on Russia...
Cynical Leadership. "Irrespective of the abilities or motives of the individuals involved, such long continuance of power is hazardous to the perpetuation of free Government. . . . Power held so long breeds within itself abuses which will ultimately destroy a democratic society. Those who hold power too long begin to distrust the very source of their power; the people seem to them hopelessly ignorant. As a result, entrenched leadership becomes cynical and remote and it fails to take the people into its confidence...