Word: dangers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...play an unrestricted role in the Balkans. Premier Pashitch of Yugoslavia is probably more aware of this than any living man. His reason for wanting to recognize Russia, after having withheld that honor so long, is that Communism has been so modified that it will not present any grave danger to the Yugo-Slavian State...
...bill was allegedly born from the fear caused by the British project of a naval base at Singapore, which, part of the Dutch claimed, menaced their large East Indian Empire. Opponents of the bill, however, considered the need of economy to override every other consideration. Presumably the bugaboo of danger to the Dutch in the Far East has been laid to rest, especially since the British Government is willing to come to an agreement with the Dutch about Singapore...
...Schenectady, the scene of his 30 years' labors as Chief Consulting Engineer of the General Electric Co. He had recently returned in a weakened condition from a six weeks' lecture tour to the Pacific Coast, and was confined to his bed, but believed to be in no danger. Death was due to chronic myocarditis, sudden failure striking the weakened wall of the heart...
...former President of Amherst College explains in the November Harper's what he meant by asserting recently that the greatest danger confronting our colleges is that of being "drawn into the common life." But the prophets and apostles of the Ku Klux Klan propose to draw them in with a vengeance. Princeton is the latest to be told that she cannot remain "in her own little eddy of oblivion while the rising tide of the greatest moral and political movement sweeps by". This particular champion of the Klan, being a lady as well as a "bishop," is naturally strong...
...This danger to the organizer and to those who hear him is no myth: I have been in non-union towns and cities where organizers have taken the stump to address the men, only to be promptly arrested and carried to jail. Time and again have I seen men beg to be taken to the station to plead their case in the presence of a magistrate before being placed under lock and key. Often there seems to be no local justice in our industrial towns. When the labor organizer is confronted with the situation of a mayor and local capitalist...