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These above outrages were perpetrated by Brown Shirts for the purpose of attempting to frighten and squeeze out of my wife valuable securities she was supposed (assumed) by them to have with her: a plain attempt at robbery...
...dismal hocus-pocus which seems to confuse its actors as much as it fails to frighten its audience. The Black Cat is the work of Director Edgar Ulmer. Silly shot: the Black Mass, with Karloff intoning Latin gibberish...
...consult the Emperor's ear, venerable Prince Saionji, last of the Elder Statesmen, before tackling the League's work in China. This time the Hirota words were delivered to the world not through Spokesman Amau but through Rengo, the official news agency. First came a warning to frighten possible investors: "Financial conditions in China are most distressing. Chinese merchants abroad who have been remitting between 300,000,000 and 400,000,000 yuan ($100,000,000 to $133,000,000) a year to help Chinese finances have ceased remittances. Last year China's trade showed an excess...
...established now as a power in armament affairs, hence, in Great Britain's affairs, hence in world affairs. He already enjoyed the distinction of having sold the first practical submarine ever used in naval operations o his native Greece, and the further distinction of having used this sale to frighten Turkey into buying TWO submarines. The Boer War added to his laurels; Boers shot Englishmen with Vickers guns and ammunition. The Russo-Japanese War provided him with an even wider field for his gifts; Vickers sold as much was material (and possibly more) to Russia as it did to Japan...
...large companies have felt that this usual method of killing legislation looking to more efficient and expeditious protection of the consumer will not be enough," said the Governor. "New and additional means of destruction must be called in. . . . And so they are carrying on a concerted effort to frighten the small and frequently uninformed investor...