Word: threatens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...because the blackest injustice is being attempted against them-that of taking from them their place in the sun! ... It is against this Italian people to which mankind owes its greatest conquests-this people of heroes, of poets, of saints, of navigators, of COLONIZERS-that the world dares to threaten 'sanctions.' . . . Italy! Italy! entirely and universally Fascist, rise to your feet! Let the cry of your determination rise to the skies and reach our soldiers in East Africa. It is the cry of Justice and of Victory!" Secreted in the Dictator's frenzy-rousing speech...
...greatest sinners are probably the philanthropists and the doctors. They have done everything they could to keep the unfit. Nature provides immunity to certain diseases by eliminating all those who contract the diseases. Now we have a protected race rather than a resistant race." Of social legislation: "Nothing could threaten the race as seriously as this. It is begging the unfit to be more unfit and inviting the fit to join the ranks of the unfit...
While the British Admiralty prepared to tuck away its Home Fleet in the safety of Milford Haven, the Leader of His Majesty's Loyal Opposition, stubborn "Old George" Lansbury, 76, explained last week the aggressive Pacifism which caused him to threaten to resign as Labor Party Leader when the proletarian Socialists of British Labor's Trades Union Congress fortnight ago urged war if necessary to restrain Fascist Italy. Never a militant trade unionist, Mr. Lansbury warned Laborites last week at Dumfries: "War, either by the League against aggressor or by one State against another would leave the world more unsettled...
...Heard Texas' big, blatant Blanton and New York's small, publicity-loving Dickstein threaten to pound each other to a pulp in a quarrel on the issue of admitting foreign Boy Scouts into the U. S. without payment of visa fees...
...maximum gate receipts were reached in 1929 when they totaled $706,000. The fall has been practically 60 per cent. Another fall of even 20 per cent would mean a serious deficit if the present rate of expenditure were continued, and a continued and sustained downward trend would seriously threaten the entire athletic program. With the uncertainties of the present economic situation, no one charged with the responsibility of the finances of this University can face such a possibility with anything but alarm. A hand to mouth policy is no solution. The only satisfactory answer is to be found...