Word: threatens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...like a train announcer, skipping paragraphs and whole sections, flipping three or four pages at a time. Primed to offer an amendment, Wisconsin's Progressive Harry Sauthoff discovered that the clerk had passed his section, had to raise a point of no quorum three times and finally threaten to demand a careful reading of the whole bill before Democratic leaders would consent to a re-reading of the section. On the quorum calls the presiding officer, North Carolina's Lindsay Warren, glanced at the 40-odd members present, announced counts of 108, 102, 117.* Three perfecting amendments offered...
...fine talk here about cooperation, but high sounding phrases aren't enough. I can get $5,000 from my legislature if I can show them what it will do for them. I have on my hands the immediate problem of the whiskey tax. The distillers threaten to move to Indiana and Illinois if we levy even a 5? tax. I heard the same threat at the meeting of the Indiana legislature last fall. Will the gentlemen from Indiana and Illinois meet with me on this problem right...
...slow in action," rumbled the Prime Minister, "and lose a great deal of their force unless they can be supported by the ultimate sanction which is a blockade of force. Collective security will never work unless all the nations who take part in it are prepared simultaneously to threaten with military sanctions. . . . That means that the nations taking part in that collective security must be ready...
...effects of the capitalist system. As long as capitalism lasts, war will constantly threaten. Whether students or any other group are for or against war makes little difference. Wars come irrespective of the wishes of those who must fight them. The basic cause of war today is the world-wide search for markets for the goods turned out by industry. He who would eliminate war must bend his energies to eliminating that which causes war. And so long as goods are produced for sale, there will be capitalists, who, whether they like it or not, must expand or lose...
Leaping into the lead soon after the opening whistle, the Crimson held the advantage throughout the game, never allowing the Big Red to threaten...