Word: certain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thing I am certain. Those who are having their laugh now at Governor Dickinson's expense better start patching their moral fences-if they have any-because men like Dickinson are going to have the last laugh. What this country and world need is a Moral Rearmament...
...switched his picture ahead and said: "We have certain ideas and ideals of national safety and we must act to preserve that safety today and to preserve the safety of our children in future years...
What psychic forces drove Adolf Hitler into war last week nobody knew for certain, but it was recalled that he had been reported to believe in astrology, and all astrologers agreed that September 1 was his fateful day. Reports of his talks with Sir Nevile Henderson and French Ambassador Robert Coulondre suggested even stranger reasons. He had said that he must accomplish his mission in Europe within 24 months because "I have other work to perform." To Sir Nevile, Hitler was quoted as having said: ''All my life I have wanted to be a great painter in oils...
...nerves. At week's end the Polish radio, protesting that "the limit of Polish patience is very near," turned from straightforward reporting of developments to a satiric debunking of the provocative propaganda its people were hearing from over the border. One German radio report had it that a certain retired Polish Army captain had been leading forays against Germans in Poland. Polish officials investigated, found that the captain had been dead for two years. Commented the radio: "Such incidents could only, therefore, have been perpetrated by a ghost, for which the Polish authorities can hardly be held responsible...
...Times and the Daily News matched each other in excitement and general pessimism. Two days before the Russo-German trade treaty was announced, the Time's Herbert L. Matthews and Frederick T. Birchall cabled from Rome and London that war seemed almost certain. Both papers printed the story of the German submarine heading for Martinique, and the News went completely haywire by suggesting that the President send a couple of battleships to blow it out of the water. Next day the News apologized to its readers for getting too excited...