Word: threats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...carried all the unwounded Croatian Deputies, who solemnly and unanimously vowed before God never to re-enter the Skupshtina so long as the present cabinet of Prime Minister Velja Vukitchevitch remains in power. On a previous occasion the Croatian Deputies stayed away for five years after making a similar threat. Bitter and thrice bitter are Croatians against Serbs, whom they consider to have robbed them of even those rights which they possessed when Croatia formed part of the Habsburg Austro-Hungarian realm...
Steel makers, led by Eugene Gifford Grace, president of Bethlehem, have seen in this recovery a potential threat to U. S. industry. By consolidation, they may hope to eliminate costs of maintaining separate foreign offices, prevent competitive price-cutting for European business...
...calculated to obtain action from the U. S. Board of Mediation, which is empowered to decide when an "emergency" exists in the U. S. transportation world and to request the President to appoint an emergency investigating commission. But last week the Board found no "emergency" in the porters' threat, presumably because the Pullman Co. announced that its service would be impaired no jot or tittle by a general walkout. The company said that hundreds of white men had applied for the Brotherhood's jobs...
...advantages of this plan are enumerated by its author. It abolishes the possibility of flagrant neglect of work; it changes the professor from a quizzer to a guide; it removes the threat of periodic examinations and of the cramming that anticipates them; and for the old lock-step education it substitutes individual freedom of movement. Although President Holt in criticizing the recitation and lecture system of Yale and Harvard is brave and heralded in combatting the present movement toward complete freedom in study, his retrogression toward the grammar school is quite unacceptable. The virtue of final examination is at present...
Protectorate. Among Chinese the threat from Tokyo was generally taken to mean that Japanese Prime Minister Baron Giichi Tanaka now purposes to carry his famed "positive policy" toward China to the extreme of establishing a de facto Japanese Protectorate over Manchuria...