Word: threatener
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Amid shouts and hubbub fiery Laborite James Maxton was seen to threaten with his doubled fist equally fiery Conservative Winston Churchill...
...kidnapped successfully by people who know their business, and that upon threat of mutilation or death he is persuaded to write his banker or other responsible person to produce a required sum from his estate and deliver to the kidnappers. Let us presume also that the kidnappers-threaten with the full intention of carrying it out, that Mr. Wagner be mutilated or killed if this sum is not provided in the manner demanded. Under those circumstances would Mr. Wagner argue that complying with the demands of the kidnappers would be treason, petty or otherwise...
Thus one day 150 subway employes dared to threaten the company with baseball bats. Shouldering these popular sporting weapons (even Crown Prince Chichibu plays baseball) they swaggered boldly into a subway train, shooed ouf the passengers, closed all the doors. Neither they nor the train would move, they announced, until the company gave them shorter hours, more...
Schools of business administration threaten to be a malicious influence in American life. An excellent example of these is the largest, richest, and most pretentious--the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration...
...difficulties which confront any program which they may adopt. Now, however, they question the ability of Mr. Garner to choose the proper course. They have divided on the question of the sales tax. Evidently actuated by strong pressure from their constituents, the Democratic members of the House threaten to revolt against the Speaker, and refuse to pass the new levy...