Word: trust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Through it all Commando Kelly remained calm but not displeased. At week's end he had sold his life story to the Saturday Evening Post for $15,000 and movie rights to a story about his family for $25,000. He sank the $15,000 into a trust fund for his mother, and arranged to buy her a house...
...Nation's Trust. On one thing all observers agreed: German industry and morale were far from smashed. German civilians were not panicky; they were doggedly determined to carry on through this and worse to come. All Germans put their trust in their still wellarmed, well-disciplined Wehrmacht...
...Douglas Adrian, fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, who won a Nobel physiology prize for his discovery in 1932. Last week Dr. Adrian reported his progress in this scientific eavesdropping. The messages he has picked up from the brain, he told an audience of distinguished scientists in the second Pilgrim Trust Lecture in Washing ton, have so far been vague and rather crude, but he has heard enough to make him hopeful that some day an electrical listening post will be able to report what, if anything, a brain is thinking...
Finger in the Machinery. When trust-busting Roosevelt I appointed Holmes to the U.S. Supreme Court, Holmes at once disappointed T.R. by supporting Railroad Tycoons James J. Hill and J. P. Morgan in an antitrust case. Said the new Justice in his first Supreme Court dissent: "Great cases like hard cases make bad law. For great cases are called great not by reason of their real importance in shaping the law of the future but because of some accident of immediate overwhelming interest which appeals to the feelings and distorts the judgment. ... We must read the words before...
...have just received a request from my friend, Air Vice Marshal Weedon, of the Royal Air Force, to arrange to send him a subscription to TIME, and trust that you will be able to accommodate him, for unbiased reporting is now more than ever essential to our allies as well as ourselves...