Word: threats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...belief that Italy will force issue with Serbia as a threat to England, France and Germany-to force them to actively interest themselves in the settlement of her dispute with Serbia...
...Candidate Willis disappointed. In fact, he came as near as he could to "weaseling" the whole business. Blowing out his lungs to the full on the sacredness of the Constitution, including a long quotation from George Washington's Farewell Address, condemning State-determinism as a threat to Federal sovereignty which he supposed the Civil War had ended forever, Candidate Willis floated over the fourth question on his initial impetus, omitting all economic and moral considerations that attach specifically to Prohibition. He said...
...wooden stands at a comparatively low cost seemed to have solved the problem. With the completion and occupancy of the Business School buildings in the fall of 1926, the Boston Building Commissioner decided that the wooden stands constituted a fire menace, and informed the University last autumn that this threat must be removed. Hence according to Mr. Bingham's report, Harvard must be satisfied with the present stadium without wooden stands, or one plan of the several submitted for enlargement must be adopted...
Senator Heflin's threat of deserting the Democratic party with a million of his stout henchmen, still hangs in abeyance. But if such a multitude are not ready to name that mountebank for their leader, there are enough whose sentiments concur with his, to form a very considerable block against the election of Governor Smith. The women's branch of the Democratic party has stated an equally strong determination against the nomination of an avowed wet. And it was for this wetness that Mr. McAdoo assailed the New York governor in an important address in Virginia that belied the harmony...
Senator McMaster is a farmer's friend. He sits among the Republicans in the Senate but he warned the Republicans before Christmas that he would ask them to talk tariff reduction. He carried out his threat last week, demanding tariff benefits for farmer, denouncing as "sophistry." "sham," "fraud" all arguments to the effect that farmers are adequately benefited by current tariff schedules...