Word: threatener
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile the National Recovery Bill was being so battered and banged about in the Senate Committee on Finance as to threaten the President's whole industrial program. Chairman Harrison lost control of his committee in a Democratic revolt similar to the one which last week struck down the President's economy program on the Senate floor. Democratic Senators had suddenly become alarmed about delegating enormous powers to the White House. They were resentful at the way the President had treated them on patronage. They took out their grouch on his recovery bill...
...that "the Junior League acquaint its members with wage and working conditions that prevail in the factories, shops and stores in their own neighborhoods and to take an active part, through the molding of a civic consciousness, to secure the eradication of such unhealthy and uneconomical conditions as may threaten the welfare of our citizens...
...many of its professors and instructors, possibly far better known to the public than many of them, was the little brown cocker spaniel "Phantom," the dog of President and Mrs. Lowell. This little dog for years was a visitor to our Hospital when any physical troubles seemed to threaten his good health. Quite unlike many of the visitors to our Hospital, President and Mrs. Lowell often would sit and wait their turn while certain other people were very impatient to have most immediate attention. Little Phantom has at last succumbed to the infirmities of old age and has vanished from...
...been shut tight by Presidential proclamation (TIME, March 13). For practical purposes the U. S. was off the gold standard. The nation's industries were at a standstill. The public pulse was beating a panicky tattoo. The Federal Government was so bowed with accumulated deficits as to threaten national credit. Ahead lay only economic uncertainty. If ever a Secretary of the Treasury started from scratch, it was Mr. Woodin last week...
Playing a beautiful offensive and defensive game, the Varsity basketball team downed Massachusetts Institute of Technology last night on the Engineers' court, 28-20. The Crimson quintet showed new vigor and pep to outplay completely the Engineers throughout the game. At no time did Tech threaten to take the lead from Harvard...