Word: threatened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Qualified Freedom. Argentina has not been idle. As Paraguay's chief supplier, large customer and road to the outside world, she could threaten as well as promise. The Bolivia-Paraguay treaty would be a smarting defeat for her "free-trade area." Free trade with big Argentina was one thing. Free trade among little neighbors was quite another. Sore point was the threatened pipeline which would bring Bolivia's landlocked oil to the Paraguay River and allow it to compete, locally at least, with Argentina...
Court v. Congress. Professor Commager might admit that the bogey remains: representatives of the people might threaten the integrity of the Bill of Rights. But the Professor does not trust the Supreme Court to protect freedom. The record of history, he says, "reveals no instance (with the possible exception of the dubious Wong Wing case) where the Court has intervened on behalf of the underprivileged-the Negro, the alien, women, children, workers, tenant-farmers.* It reveals, on the contrary, that the Court has effectively intervened again and again to defeat congressional efforts to free slaves, guarantee civil rights to Negroes...
Pacific. Alarmed by U.S. Navy and Marine landings at Bougainville, the Japanese rushed reinforcements from Truk to Rabaul, the major South Pacific base which the Allies now threaten. Allied air planes found many warships in Rabaul, attacked and hit eight cruisers, two destroyers. Despite constant bombings, the Japs managed to keep air power pouring into the area...
Brother v. Brother. In the north, beyond the German lines, the premature anti-Fascist risings of the summer had a painful aftermath. In Milan the Archbishop, Alfredo Ildefonso Cardinal Shuster, found it necessary to threaten excommunication to those who denounced their anti-Fascist brothers to the Germans. Mussolini's Republican Fascist Government, speaking from a still-undisclosed capital, bawled new threats of death and imprisonment to all who wavered in their love for the Duce...
...Some of these labor organizations are beginning to take on the color of the old Anti-Saloon crowd in its palmy days before Repeal. They have the same kind of political and financial power to coerce government agencies, to threaten individual Congressmen and to frighten liberal critics by labeling them as opponents of a great moral cause. . . . Independent businessmen, consumers and farmers have had to sit back in enraged helplessness while labor used coercion for the following purposes: Price control, eliminating cheap methods of distribution, creating local trade barriers by restricting the use of materials made outside the state, preventing...