Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Officials at Newark Airport were informed one night by their Baltimore dispatcher that Wallace Groves on the northbound Florida plane was in danger of being shot when he alighted at Newark...
...Manifestly, such a procedure carries with it the implications of the greatest possible danger. It places the productivity of industry at the mercy of a labor leadership, responsible and accountable to neither the law nor the workers, and restricted solely by its own desires and ambitions. The dangers of such a centralized control of the American worker are obvious. Its political implications challenge democracy. ... To the extent that it succeeds, it means the economic and political slavery of the worker, and an important step toward an economic dictatorship...
They all think that they are trapped in a saloon by a flood. So they wall up the windows, thereby concealing from themselves the true state of affairs outside, and then they make sundry efforts to preserve their morale. Then, it is not so much that the danger passes, as that they find that they never were really in any genuine trouble anyway. What they took for a flood was really only a cloudburst, and the hermetically sealed door and windows only served to make the room stuffy. The result of this blunder is a wave of cynicism decidedly more...
Heckles is heckling us." Congressional misery took a turn for the worse when the Eccles warning was seconded a few days later by Secretary of Agriculture Wallace and Secretary of Commerce Roper. Pointing out that the South was now planting cotton under the "dangerous delusion" that the staple would fetch 20? per Ib. by next autumn (price last week: 14?), Secretary Wallace declared: "I think very definitely that the Government does not have sufficient powers now to effectively mitigate the wide swings of the business cycle." Bumbled Secretary Roper: "We must not let our optimism cloud vision and obscure danger...
...spindly sort, he had once been threatened with tuberculosis, knew there was small danger of his being chosen as an A-1 specimen. In 1918 he was finally called up, drafted into a Labor Battalion. One night of that was enough for Noel. He pulled wires, got transferred to the Artists' Rifles...