Word: threatening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...members in the coming session. We leave what's left of the depression, With fifty thousand tomes appended, Telling just how it can be ended. To Congressmen who'll draw our salary, We leave all gunmen in the gallery, All Communists who march and fight And threaten us with dynamite. Those stalwart ones may have the onus Of laying hands upon the bonus. The currency-to them we hand it, To shrink, contract it, or expand it. We'll let them exercise their talents On making that thar' budget balance. And, pointing out, with no delaying...
That Mayor Walker called his little friend "Junior," used to threaten to "send him back to military academy" if he did not "behave...
Last week's milestone was not erected until after the House had shouted itself hoarse in debate. Within six hours, 40 members in turn bounced up to shout, roar, sob, rant, plead or threaten, for & against. In a decade and one-half Prohibition had been argued threadbare. There was nothing new or sensational left to say. Only stunt: appearance before the House of New York's Sirovich, a physician, with 18 bottles of beer, a pint of Scotch whiskey, a quart of milk and a declaration that the 18 bottles of beer contained the same amount of alcohol...
...rather a new thing when members of the House of Lords begin to threaten members of the Commons [with] two years in jail!" shouted the Welshman, and he rehashed his dispute with Sir Robert Home as to what they both said at Cabinet sessions in 1922 (when Sir Robert was Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mr. Lloyd George was Prime Minister) about the terms on which Great Britain could agree to fund her War debt to the U. S.-an operation subsequently performed by Stanley Baldwin after the Lloyd George Cabinet's fall (TIME, April...
...without compensating advantages to the U. S. on the other two. Because such a policy cannot he completed by March 4, he was again ready to seek the co-operation of President-elect Roosevelt "in the organization of machinery for advancement of consideration of these problems." Forces "which today threaten the very foundations of civilization," he thought, required speedy action and national solidarity. Said...