Word: blackmailed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stempel writes the statement. Enright explains that his lawyer recommended telling the D.A. about Stempel's alleged blackmail, but for fear that disclosure would "destroy" Herb, Enright kept quiet...
...This nationalism, and especially this statism, is a big farce and a big blackmail," he said at a conference with a dozen high-ranking fellow politicians. "If there were a plebiscite, Petrobrás would be voted down in ten minutes-and by the workers themselves, once they were properly informed. If I were president, the first thing I would do would be to revise Petrobr...
Desperate Call. Before the Si-nation General Assembly the President struck hard at what he called "ballistic blackmail": the Soviet Union's rocket-rattling and "brink-of-catastrophe" alarms after the U.S. landing in Lebanon. "In most communities," said President Eisenhower, "it is illegal to cry 'fire' in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims? Pressures such as these will never be successfully practiced against America, but they do create dangers which could affect each and every...
...value and results of the President's Middle East speech could not be measured solely by General Assembly resolutions. Besides proposing a Middle East program, the President set forth, in terms whose echoes should linger long, the U.S. stand in the world: firmness in the face of "ballistic blackmail," steadfast opposition to aggression, loyalty to the U.N. Charter, friendship toward other nations and readiness to help them achieve their real and legitimate aspirations...
...cease-fire and brought a promise of political order to Lebanon; 3) he shrewdly impressed Arab leaders, both friendly and hostile, with the key fact that the U.S. had shown itself able and willing to help its friends in the Middle East-while the U.S.S.R., for all its ballistic-blackmail diplomacy, had backed off when the going got rough...