Word: certain
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...aisle. Off the blue-baize-covered table of the Foreign Relations Committee room will come the little golden plate, stamped with his name. In the leather chair where he presided, where he wrestled out foreign problems with the late William E. Borah, will sit a new chairman-almost certain to be Walter F. George, of Vienna...
Dies had turned over to the State Department what the Committee Chairman described as "certain evidence which we obtained showing the activities and propaganda of German consuls and agents...
...election evening. He was having dinner with his campaign tour manager and former assistant in the Department of Agriculture, tall, thin, monosyllabic James Le Cron (whose wife is a sister of John and Gardner Cowles, Midwest publishers, ardent Willkie backers both). Unruffled as ever, the man who was certain to have a big-perhaps unprecedentedly big-assignment in the new administration sat before the radio, listened, finally unbent, told reporters he was gratified. When the returns indicated a big electoral majority Henry Wallace, no celebrater, went home...
...originally picked by the conservative, military wing of the P. R. M.-Cardenas' Party of the Mexican Revolution), he has swung steadily Right, repudiated Communist support. Religious restraints on the Church are going. Whether the Church will win its fight against secular education is not so certain, though there are signs that it is making headway...
...plan: Jobs to be provided by government for everybody who has not got one-to be paid for by everybody who has. "The money cost, it can be admitted with a certain smugness, will be quite staggering . . . ten billions the year to care for approximately eight millions of unemployed." Grafton proposes a three-year plan of this kind, "embracing everything from the construction of bomb-proofs in the East Coast cities to a military CCC to turn the tinkering genius of young America loose on tank and plane repair and maintenance." The Nazis did it, he says...