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...human beings. With the same tactics in 1933, Cordell Hull had saved the International Conference of American States at Montevideo from complete collapse. Until he exhausted this shirt-sleeve diplomacy in Havana, wise men did not entirely discount U. S. hopes for: 1) some sort of Pan-American "collective trusteeship" over French, Dutch, perhaps British possessions in Latin America; 2) at least a start toward a Hemisphere trade cartel, wherewith to combat Nazi commercial and political fifth columny; 3) military cooperation, when & if necessary...
...left Wall Street to serve as liaison between business and the New Deal, first as an SECommissioner, then (until last December) as Undersecretary of the Treasury. He had quarrelled with many New Dealers, was anxious to get back into business, had turned down several lucrative offers. The Associated trusteeship tempted him because it combined business with a chance to do a job in the public interest. But no sooner was his name proposed than lightning began to play around his head. It started when New York Times Columnist Arthur Krock wrote a column which he thought would give his friend...
...files of the CRIMSON reveal no editor who had to resort to the purchase of a trusteeship to make progress at Vassar, nor is there indication of a man with a special grudge against German geese...
...also suggested that control of the fund be shifted from the Treasury to a "trusteeship" composed of the chairman of the Social Security Board and the Secretaries of Labor and the Treasury...
...stock, but Judge Shearn is his sole voting trustee. As trustee he has irrevocable control over all Hearst enterprises-provided he can keep the Consolidated preferred stockholders happy-until 1947, when Hearst will be 84. Nobody, not even Hearst, knows if Hearst will live that long, and so the trusteeship is a race against death, when the Government may demand up to 20% in inheritance taxes and creditors can no longer be stalled. Even more, it is a race against dwindling confidence. Judge Shearn has abandoned a large part of the Hearst empire, and well he knows how ephemeral...