Word: duress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...such as "Bugle Call Rag"...Artie Shaw has been sued for another $30,000, this time by former Victor record manager, Eli Oberstein. Oberstein claims that he had a contract for Shaw's services with his new U. S. Record Company, and that Shaw broke it. Shaw replies that "duress, fraud, and false intent" were employed in getting him to sign the contract...
While the U. S. was thus expecting, if not enjoying, a continued revival of business, European businessmen were wondering how long their duress would continue. Great question in Europe last winter was whether the U. S. would pull Europe into the economic morass (TIME, Feb. 28). It did. Question now is whether the U. S. will pull Europe out again...
These and several similar endorsements by Catholic prelates obtained by Nazi Bürckel last week had in common the fact that these signed statements affirmed they were made not under duress but "joyfully," "with undisguised joy," "voluntarily...
...This has been going on not merely for years but for generations, and usually not only the Japanese but also the Chinese refuse to divulge the texts. It was with reference to this enormous quantity of Oriental secret pledges, which the Occident regards as morally invalid because exacted under duress, that the Imperial Japanese Government last week issued the following urbane and reasoned 550 word official statement which would not deceive a Vermont woodchuck or a Georgia possum: "The present Sino-Japanese affair originated in an unwarranted attack by Chinese forces on Japanese garrison troops legitimately stationed in North China...
...taking Commander Ferrando with them as hostage. At Bélin near Bordeaux French police captured one of their two escaping cars, interned the lot. Among them was Miguel Juan Las Heras, Commander of the C4. Immediately it became apparent that Commander Ferrando had not been kidnapped under great duress. To reporters he said...