Word: threatened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bulky, sad-eyed, drawling Judge Vinson, 53, is a first-rate authority on the U.S. tax laws, which he can quote, provision by provision, with all the "hereinafters" properly included, in a dazzling display of mnemonics. As a Kentucky Congressman for 14 years, he rose so fast as to threaten the seniority system. His special technique is to arm himself with such a mastery of the facts at issue that he can gently but thoroughly demolish the opposition. A kind, solid and reassuring citizen, he became last week the best and most important new face in the Washington...
...doing international business at once on its initiative and responsibility, leaving long-term capital until later and to other agencies. The Keynes plan provides checks on both debtors and creditors and further provides means for applying gentle brakes to a debtor in danger of overextension. But it does not threaten the debtor with automatic raid and collapse, as the old gold standard often unfairly did. Yet without tying rigidly to gold, it does provide means whereby gold can be sold into those large and populous areas of Latin America, the Middle East and Eastern Asia where people mistrusting paper money...
This American radical, confronting the dangers which will threaten his country after the war, will be "a fanatic believer in equality." Though he will be willing, in times of peace, to let salaries and earnings exceed $25,000 a year (for he believes in equality of opportunity, not of rewards), he will endeavor to prevent the growth of a caste system by demanding really effective inheritance and gift taxes and the breaking up of trust funds and estates. Once every generation, in effect, wealth would thus be redistributed. This, Dr. Conant warned, "cannot be lightly pushed aside...
...will of the late Admiral was well known: to smash the U.S. From boyhood, when his father told him of the American barbarians who had come to Japan to threaten the Son of Heaven, Isoroku Yamamoto hated Americans...
From conquered Europe came a spate of stories of sabotage and revolt. In themselves these acts did not threaten the Nazi regime, but they did demonstrate that Allied armies will not fight alone when Europe is invaded...