Word: certainly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...section of TIME devoted to the press [July 19], reference was made to certain changes in the city room of the New York Times. Your article stated, among other things, that Assistant Managing Editor Turner Catledge had been moved up to acting managing editor to "replace" Edwin L. James who sailed the week before for a vacation in Europe. Some who have read this have assumed this was a permanent change instead of the normal routine of replacing the chief executive when he is on a vacation. Mr James and Mr. Catledge have been close associates for many years...
...investigations as a "red herring to keep from doing what they ought to do." The investigations had produced no evidence not long known to the FBI and a federal grand jury, he added, and they served no useful purpose. "On the contrary, they are doing irreparable harm to certain persons, seriously impairing the morale of federal employees, and undermining public confidence in the Government...
Then the President swung with his other hand. Reading emphatically from a prepared statement, he blamed Congress for taking "no effective action on the proposals which I have submitted to curb high prices and to protect the average American citizen against the certain prospect of increased living costs." Said the President: "Our people will not be satisfied with the feeble compromises that apparently are being concocted...
While the world waited for something more solid than speculation to come out of the most hush-hush series of conferences since the war, there were certain facts and probabilities to keep in mind. One was that the Kremlin would probably ot be willing to lift the Berlin blockade in return for a mere agreement to confer...
...stage with other Liberal bigwigs, dapper Louis St. Laurent, 66, Secretary of State for External Affairs, nervously fingered his bristly mustache. He was Mr. King's man and the convention's almost certain choice. In a nearby box sat chic, grey-haired Madame St. Laurent. As the ballots were counted, eager supporters kept rushing up to whisper to her: "Très, Très, Très bon." Each time she answered: "Attendez." They did not have to wait long for the formal announcement: St. Laurent on the first ballot with 848 votes...