Word: certain
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...surprise when newsmen asked him about red tape's interference with NDAC's work (TIME, Aug. 5). Replied he: "I do not recognize any. People might have thought we had red tape at General Motors because we did things in a definite way. Here too, there are certain definite ways to proceed...
...being a Frenchman. "Attracted by the ease of our life and by the prospect of quick profits," wrote Le Jour in sentences reminiscent of Germany's Alfred Rosenberg, "a crowd of half-breeds and ex-patriots have rushed to our country. Thanks to the imprudent generosity of certain politicians and the political calculations of others, French citizenship has been handed out at the rate of a battalion a month. This most precious right has been usurped by these people-they must now restore...
Even in the Army, trouble brewed last week. It was revealed that certain soldiers of the 38th Infantry Battalion, strategically posted on the fringe of the Federal District, and others "in the country," had been caught with "visiting cards" on which was printed the legend: "Soldiers, take arms against your usurpers when Almazan orders...
...This is an urgent request. It is important that the National Theatre Conference have available without delay certain facts to submit to the national government. Please send to this office the names of those of your recent graduates who are qualified to direct plays and supervise dramatics in military training camps...
...Miniver herself, when buying fireworks, was apt to be led away by fantastic titles; she would order Humming Spiders, Witches' Cauldrons, Mines with Serpents. . . . Clem . . . laid out a certain amount on Roman Candles, Catherine-wheels, and Tourbillions, but for the most part he rightly concentrated on rockets. There was one bursting now, a delicate constellation of many-colored stars which drifted down and lingered in the still...