trustee
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For families with complex estates, consolidating accounts and assets under one trustee can help everything run more smoothly.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 15, 2026
David Panzirer, a trustee of the Helmsley Charitable Trust, resigned in protest as a board observer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
Campbell must take some responsibility for failures to maintain minutes and file accounts on time - but that was not enough to disqualify the model as a charity trustee, the tribunal said.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
Student success: Cabrera would take steps to ensure student services are more readily available and the public has better visibility and say in trustee decisions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
"Lie, sir? Lie to him, lie to a trustee, sir? Me?"
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
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He explains that Social Security is managed by the federal government and funded by payroll taxes while private trust funds are estate-planning tools in which trustees manage assets for beneficiaries.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026
A spokesperson for the charity said the Omagh branch "has been a valued part of Samaritans for more than 50 years" and they "recognise the contribution made" by successive trustees, directors, leaders and all volunteers.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
He said at a September UNC Chapel Hill trustees meeting that it had made an initial investment with a venture capital fund in 2009 and, “17 years later, we are now harvesting an enormous gain.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
"It is imperative that Cornell be willing to examine itself with the same rigor we expect of others," Anne Meinig Smalling, chair of the university's board of trustees, said in a statement.
From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026
That was until Will Thompson’s grandfather, who was a member of the school’s board of trustees as well as an esteemed donor, got wind of the article.
From "Here to Stay" by Sara Farizan
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It marked a stark change from April 2016, when the university’s board of trusteed voted to keep the former president’s name on campus buildings and programs.
From Slate ● Jun. 27, 2020
According to President Batten & friends this right belongs to N. W. Ayer, the corporation, as owner of 117,000 trusteed shares.
From Time Magazine Archive
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To him she left $5,000,000, but again the bulk of the Flagler fortune went undivided into a trusteed estate.
From Time Magazine Archive
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It is suing Washington's Riggs National Bank to recover $200,000 trusteed there for Mrs. Barnett out of the "donation" made to her.
From Time Magazine Archive
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"We trusteed and trusteed and trusteed," reported the President after the board meeting.
From Time Magazine Archive
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She informed the executors that she wished to make over half her property to the old man, trusteeing it so that it should descend to his nephew.
From Overland by J. W. (John William) De Forest
I know that I registered a vow that I would never again be trustee of anything without trusteeing it in fact.
From The Making of an American by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis
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