Word: threatening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...aggressor falls upon me, a situation will occur in which one of us-according to Count Tolstoy- will be killed. But if one of us is to be killed it should be the attacker. To defend one's self is morally permissible. A strong man does not threaten but is prepared...
...fact of which the manifesto proceeded to take scathing note: "Snowden has poured out his scorn: Lloyd George has been moved to put on his full warpaint and to cut his most com ical capers, and Baldwin looks the other way while some of his lieutenants threaten all who dare to believe in the economic union of the empire." In a ringing appeal for contributions to the new party's fund, last week, Baron Beaverbrook declared that all receipts and expenditures will be publicly audited, challenged the old guard parties to be equally frank about their money. Within...
...professional life doubtless requires the variety in the domestic side, both evils strike a severe blow at the teetotaler instead of aiding his cause. For youth just starting out in life Prohibition thus presents another serious problem. One hundred and fifty-six years of life and eleven wives threaten those who obey the law. However, these are the formative years; youth still has a chance...
Wisconsin's young Senator La Follette blazed away like his father in this fight:† "We are filling the jury box that will decide the issue between organized greed and the rights of the masses. . . . Aggregations of capital threaten to wipe out the great middle class in this country...
...strong complaint: they did not want the management of industrial alcohol left with the Treasury, as the Williamson bill and the Wickersham report called for. They felt that as a source of 'legger leakage this, too, should be under the Department of Justice. Industrialists legitimately using alcohol threaten a revolt if their raw material is taken from the Treasury. An ingenious compromise has been devised to hold both in line: the Secretary of the Treasury could issue industrial alcohol permits only after the Attorney General had been given ten days to review each application, to veto those of which...