Word: certain
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Snapped Lord Lothian, British Ambassador: "Complete eyewash." Said an authoritative source in London: "You can be certain it won't happen again." At first denied by Lieut. Colonel R. Swire, chief censor in Hamilton, who declared, "utter nonsense . . . no armed men were in the vicinity," the story was later admitted in part. An official statement pointed out that a force majeure had to be created to enable Captain Lorber to yield his mail without any question of having failed in his duty as a U. S. mail carrier. This "show of force" was a boatload of armed special constables...
...went to Leningrad, if he watched any of his bright-cheeked soldiers floundering through the snow on the Karelian Isthmus, no word of it leaked out: Leningrad is the only one of the world's ten largest cities without a foreign correspondent. But one thing was certain: that to celebrate its 22nd anniversary last week the Red Army did not take Viipuri. If Joseph Stalin was disappointed, that was nothing to the chagrin of his best friend, Andrei Zhdanov...
Last week Archbishop Schrembs decreed that his interdict should stand indefinitely. But "innocent people of the parish, and those who repent of their crime," could go to neighboring churches, if they made certain acts of submission. Said the Archbishop: "The purpose of this decree is not revenge, since revenge is unknown to the Church of Christ; its purpose is to lead erring children . . . lovingly back to their Father's House...
Well above suspicion were the motives and integrity of Wall Street Alumnus Hanes. But by week's end it was certain that he would not be a trustee of Associated. Homer Cummings' kiss had proved sure death in New Deal Washington, and Homer Cummings' friends and clients had thereby lost Round I of the great Associated battle to the New Deal. As Judge Leibell was pondering other names at week's end, Associated's 1,762,000 customers, unperturbed by the fight half-a-dozen holding companies away, found their lights went...
...Damoclean dagger rather than sword are the $1,420,000,000 worth of U. S. stocks and bonds held by Allied investors. Their value is less than 2% of that of all securities listed on the New York Stock Exchange. But under the imminent and certain threat of World War II, the hair that held this dagger over U. S. securities markets looked scarily tenuous to market men. If French and British investors had sold their holdings in a panicky rush for dollars, the dagger would have dropped on an already queasy market, drawn real blood...