Word: threatener
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...insurance companies immediately wanted to increase their rates. Operators of deep California gold mines, which are difficult to ventilate, would be obliged to pay $22.25 instead of the current $11 premium for every $100 they pay their men. Some mines of low-profit margin have already shut down. Others threaten to do so. Mineowners and miners, who face loss of employment, were last week beseeching California's insurance commissioner to forbid any such rate upping on account of silicosis hazards...
...night Mrs. Roosevelt drove out to address the Faculty Women's Club of Howard University (Negro). The dusky clubwomen had to threaten to call the police to keep Negro newshawks and cameramen from crashing the party. In the confusion Mrs. Roosevelt found herself alone on the street after the affair. Gallantly Negro Edgar C. Brown, CCC press-agent who has a bushy Vandyke beard, squired her to the White House...
Slowing down a bit after their flurry of baskets, the Feslermen allowed the B.U. basketeers to threaten their lead on several occasions, but the outcome was never seriously in doubt...
...Daladier and his so-called "Young Turk's" of Socialist and Communist leanings are out this year to stampede their party and the Government into strong-arm anti-Fascist measures. They threaten that unless French Fascist Leader Colonel François de La Rocque and his "Cross of Fire" movement are suppressed the Young Turks will organize fighting squads with bases in the "Red Zones" of Paris where Communists are reported already to have caches of arms...
...found in the banking situation, which is characterized by unprecedentedly low money rates and by the greatest surplus reserves ever recorded. . . . Given a sufficient degree of confidence, or perhaps of desperation, or even of reckless boredom over the prolonged idleness of money, a situation could develop which would threaten the gravest consequences through an upward flight of security prices...