Word: threats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...city hall in an effort to break a commission merchants' trust. A street car strike ended his term prematurely, the carmen refusing to promise they would strike no more while he was mayor. He had threatened to resign if they failed to promise and he made the threat good...
...gridiron work last year and it is still a matter of doubt whether or not he can regain his former form after a year's comparative lay-off. But whether he reaches the heights he touched two years ago again or not Crosby is bound to be a dangerous threat to opposing teams this year, and is likely to improve greatly as the season approaches its climax...
...interests, has ceased to count: filing systems, ever more elaborate, even to the point of completely baffling the office force; questionnaires, ever more personal, so much so that the applicant for work must write home before he can proceed intelligently; ever increasing routine, requiring reports and whatnot, under dire threat of being blacklisted at the Bureau. The tyranny of so-called efficiency has reached new heights this fall with the requirement that applicants file pictures of themselves and a budget for their year's income and proposed expenses with the Secretary for Employment...
...accord now reached represents a compromise obviously unsatisfactory to the Persians, who sought to raise the trade limit to 35,000,000 rubles. The threat^ of the railway is primarily inspired by British influence, which aims at strengthening Persia as a buffer state between India and Russia...
...take up the second major claim of each Chief Delegate, namely, that the plan of his delegation would involve the lesser armed threat to the peace of the world, additional standards of judgment must...