Word: trust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...large bipartisan audience of women (and a few men) at New Haven, Conn., Mrs. Roosevelt delivered an outspoken blast at the President's policy of keeping U.S. detailed knowledge of the atomic bomb a secret. Her conclusion: this was an implication that the U.S. could not trust its former allies. But would the secret hold? Said she: "Even those most hopeful that we can hold this secret expect others to trust us when we, apparently, do not trust anyone else. . . . I wonder if President Truman is not forgetting that the atomic bomb became important to us only when...
Hollywood's Banker. Ever since he started the Bank of America National Trust & Savings Association (then the Bank of Italy) 41 years ago, A.P. has had his hard eyes on this goal. The son of a San Jose (Calif.) farmer, he had made enough money in the commission business and real estate to retire at the age of 31. He soon went back to work, via a bank directorship he inherited from his dead father-in-law. When his ideas for liberalizing the bank's methods shocked his conservative fellow directors, Giannini started his own bank...
...resumption of Jap industrial production is still 98% in the talk stage. The question of production is also tied in with the bigger one: what shall be done with the great industrialists, the zaibatsu? Certainly, the trust situation is worse here than even in Germany. Everybody tells tales about the zaibatsu's imperialism, their bludgeoning of competitors, their profiteering. But there is no documentation, probably because, as a French journalist, just released from internment, said: "Really important things were known only to a handful of men, those who did them, and they won't tell...
Placing emphasis on the United States position of leadership in this line of research, Professor Bridgman recommended that "the bomb be turned over to an international control group involving mutual trust among nations." He forecast the end of nationalities and a society in which nations must band together in the preservation of mankind...
...Americans, English, and the Russians. "The western nations agree that full confidence in dealings with Russia is necessary," he said. "But Russia has done nothing to give us this confidence. We do not have the facts upon which to base a sound judgment. If there is to be complete trust in politics, the Russians must come at least half-way. They must show that they are ready to trust us also...