Word: certain
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...have got a clear case. Just go ahead and make the admission in front of the girl.' " Another hold-up game practiced by members of the New York Police Department: arresting men on charges of "annoying women in the subway"; hustling them to jail; introducing them to certain bondsmen and "lawyers" who, for fat cash fees, hold "conversations" with the night court judges, get the cases dismissed, keep the victims' names out of the newspapers...
...think that deliberately false evidence is but rarely given for the prosecution in criminal cases of anything like a serious nature. The exception to this general statement is to be found in cases where children or girls, and sometimes grown women, give evidence against men charged with-ah-certain offenses...
...more unusual was the explanatory interview given by Amadeo Peter Giannini, founder of Bank of Italy whence sprang Transamerica. He said, startlingly, that the syndicate should give protection ". . . against such drives ... as have been experienced since the middle of the year 1928, at which time and since a certain California competitor has been a most active participant in the group conducting the market operations. . . . May I urge . . . stockholders to put up a united front against the enemy...
More than one potent California banker bridled angrily, sure that he was the "certain competitor" accused by Mr. Giannini. But well-informed observers paid little heed. Mr. Giannini, 60 and retired, is no longer official spokesman for Transamerica, having been succeeded a year ago by astute Elisha Walker of New York. And while it is true that there has been a large professional short interest in Transamerica stock, Wall Street has not been conscious of any great golden California bear in its menagerie. Embarrassing as it might have been for Transamerica's active management, the Giannini outburst - made...
...board, saying: "The supremacy of nations may be determined by the possession of available petroleum and its products. . . . Over- production in itself encourages cheapness, which in turn leads to wastefulness and disregard of essential values." Fear of anti-trust prosecution has retarded oil curtailment in the U. S. In certain states there seems no legal way to coerce small producers. The Federal Oil Conservation Board has suggested a six-day refinery week; the American Petroleum Institute since its organization in 1920 has championed curtailment; California's law prohibiting the waste of natural gas has been a way to force...