Word: threatened
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...crop promise to exceed even those of this year. Except for the U. S. beet sugar industry, the same general situation of excessive production exists throughout the sugar world. As a result, sugar prices, though temporarily held up by the canning and preserving season this summer, threaten to continue in the doldrums for some time...
...more; if Holland then 1,750,000 more, and if Belgium 2,000,000 more? that is, if we had devoted the same care to the possibilities of the soil, as they have done in these countries, there would be no unemployment problem of any magnitude to disturb and threaten our national life. It is right that each man should ask himself, landlord, farmer, and laborer, is this scheme just and fair...
...Department of Labor, through its Children's Bureau, took the parental bull directly and single-handedly by the horns. Its Dr. I. A. Thom issued commandments on child management: "Don't bribe. Don't make promises which you know you cannot or do not intend to keep. Don't threaten a child in order to obtain control over...
...restore the Army's discipline. General Pangalos answered by contributing a statement to the Politcia, Athens journal: "Every hair on the heads of the Republican officers which may be interfered with will be paid for by the heads of Venizelists [Government Party].' It is known that I never threaten in vain. I now threaten." And he was as good as his word...
...intentions was the establishment two years ago of joint commissions to settle claims for indemnities. He scored the U. S. Secretary for saying in effect that the U. S. had the greatest interest in maintaining order in Mexico, while at the same time taking advantage of revolutionary rumors to threaten that the U. S. would cease to have that interest unless American lives and interests were fully protected. This is, said the President, "a threat to the sovereignty of Mexico that she cannot overlook and regrets with all energy because she does not accord to any foreign country the right...