Word: threatfully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...true" that the store hired no Negroes. Dowdy's complaint was handed to Chicago's Commission on Human Relations, whose enforcement powers are limited to public contract but whose public hearings can be powerful in dealing with private business. Field's, faced with an implied threat of public hearings and a supertight labor market, relented and wrote the commission that it had decided to give "a number of jobs, some menial, some not so menial," to qualified Negroes...
...GARDINER Symonds' threat to blow up the New England natural gas "truce" unless he won access to the Canadian market (TIME, Aug. 17) got results. In return for sharing New England with Algonquin...
...Paris, so the story goes, an American was challenged by a Frenchman to a duel. As the challenged party, he had the choice of weapons. His choice-"double-barreled shotguns at 20 paces"-posed such a strong threat of mutual annihilation that the Frenchman called the whole thing...
After Joe McCarthy subjected New York Post Editor James A. Wechsler, one of his bitterest editorial enemies, to a five-hour inquisition last spring, a special eleven-man committee of the American Society of Newspaper Editors sat down to decide whether the incident was a general threat to the freedom of the press. Last week the committee reported that it could reach no decision, vaguely concluded: "It is the responsibility of every editor to read the transcript and decide for himself...
...committee's own chairman,* Washington Post Managing Editor J. Russell Wiggins, whose paper has blasted McCarthy in editorials and cartoons almost as often as the New York Post has. Said the minority: "We are compelled by every command of duty to brand this and every like threat to freedom of the press, from whatever source, as a peril to American freedom . . . Congressional interrogation such as [this], if frequently repeated, would extinguish, without passage of a single law, that free and unfettered reporting of events and comment thereon upon which the preservation of our liberties depends ... A press...