Word: threatening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rallied at a missionary meeting of Leader Lewis' Committee for Industrial Organization in Pittsburgh last week, heard his pious and progressive lieutenant, Philip Murray, claim that Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers has already enrolled 128,000 of the nation's 500,000 steel workers, threaten trouble unless steelmasters cease their "dog-in-the-manger attitude." C. I. O. also defied its antagonists in the great Steel campaign last week by haling Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp., biggest U. S. Steel subsidiary, before the National-Labor Relations Board on charges of interfering with its employes' right...
...Blum in persuading Parliament that Mr. Roosevelt is friendly to the French New Deal and has ordered Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau to cushion and facilitate the devaluation of the franc (TIME, Oct. 5). Both Paris and Rome had the impression that Alf Landon would have tried to threaten them into resumption of payments on the French and Italian War debts...
Technically Mr. Melius was correct but the circumstantial evidence was against him. The I. C. C. had the word of a Baltimore & Ohio man that a New York Central vice president had telephoned him to threaten that Universal would surely shift its patronage if B. & O. made an alliance with the Keeshin truck lines. The B. & O. continued to discuss that alliance, whereupon Universal started to route over Pennsylvania...
...class holiday. . . . There are those who fail to read both the signs of the times and American history. They would try to refuse the worker any effective power to bargain collectively, to earn a decent livelihood and to acquire security. It is those short-sighted ones, not Labor, who threaten this country with that class dissension which in other countries has led to dictatorship and the establishment of fear and hatred as the dominant emotions in human life...
...through the years, over and over again I found that in practical affairs the ethics of big businessmen were better than the ethics of small businessmen. . . . The difficulty then is . . . that defects of character which in a simple society may be endurable as common weaknesses of human nature, may threaten to wreck the structure of our society when they are magnified to the dimensions of nationwide industries or of continent-wide governments...