Word: duress
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Thus, still firm upon "the highest moral grounds," Dr. Schacht yielded and agreed-making clear that he agreed under duress-that the Reichsbank will subscribe its B. I. S. quota. This removed the last real obstacle to complete agreement at The Hague; but throughout Germany a tempest of controversy brewed. Whereas a few weeks ago ratification of the Young Plan by the Reichstag seemed certain, correspondents of nearly all major news services now filed long despatches full of ominous doubts. Skillful Dr. Schacht had roused in the German public mind a fear that Dr. Curtius had conceded too much...
Attorney for Fogarty, Col. Lewis M. Field of the staff of Gov. Trumbull of Connecticut, stated that his client had no knowledge of the contents of the quitclaim when she signed it; that if she did sign it, there had been duress ("pressure...
...cannot be too clearly pointed out that this should not establish a precedent for a general University housing program. The difficulties of managing isolated units and keeping everybody happy are too great to warrant the University's participation in work of this sort unless under the utmost duress of necessity. Happily the Harvard Housing Trust, as has been pointed out, has largely removed the likelihood of such obligation...
...Producer Carroll would soon have the opportunity of meeting Warden Snook once more. Owing to alleged "privileges" tendered to distinguished sojourners at Atlanta penitentiary, an investigation was being started last week, by a congressional committee. It was known that delectable Dorothy Knapp had vis ited Producer Carroll during his duress and that she had lunched at the home of Warden Snook. Both Producer Carroll and Performer Knapp would probably be called as witnesses in the forthcoming investigation...
That was more than five years ago. Since that time the situation has changed. Hungary was compelled by the Little Entente to pass a law forever excluding the Habsburgs. But Hungarians regard this law as an act of duress. At the first possible opportunity they will pass another law; but whether that law will restore Otto to his royal rights, proclaim his popular cousin (Albrecht) king or allow the National Assembly to elect whomsoever it pleases, nobody can say. All that Hungarians are conscious of is that their "Kingless Kingdom on the Danube" is an anomaly that, for political reasons...