Word: threats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Before a threat so awful, despatches told, the entire army halted. Frantically young Chang Hsueh-liang telegraphed his father, Chang Tso-lin, to send still more potent magicians from Peking to break the curse. Soon, by special train, these gentry arrived. They advised that each soldier should break the curse against himself individually by tying a small "magic rag" to his rifle and wetting it with "enemy blood...
...Treasury within 90 days $226,878. This is one-half of the $453,756 which the I. C. C. says that the road earned from 1921 to 1924, in excess of 6% of its 1914 valuation. It is a trivial sum. But the decision carried a threat of possible loss in values to all the U. S. railroads of eleven billion dollars...
...American property rights the State Department yesterday announced that "in the absence of a commercial treaty or other arrangements with Mexico safeguarding American commerce against possible discrimination the Washington government did not deem it advisable to continue the smuggling convention." This can hardly be interpreted as anything like a threat against the Calles administration. The smuggling convention required the United States to notify Mexico of any shipment of arms into that country even if the Arms Embargo was lifted. The removal of this secondary guarantee against the indiscriminate delivery of rifles to disaffected elements in Mexico quite clearly...
...Shantung Chang. The two Changs were informed that they must release Mme. Borodin, her couriers, her baggage, and the S. S. Pamiat Lenina. But Mme. Borodin was not released. To rescue her, Russia must send much gold, or many men, offer some great concession, or concoct some really potent threat. "Mrs. Grosberg," Chinese thought, is likely to prove the most valuable hostage of the whole Chinese civil...
Automobiles had become a troublesome problem in Princeton, as elsewhere. Five undergraduate deaths, the poor scholastic standing of 200 student automobile owners and the threat to Princeton's traditional seclusion latent in roadsters capable of reaching bright-lit cities in two hours of the day or night, moved Dean Christian Gauss to ask the senior council to pass a prohibitive ruling. He asked twice. The council took no action. It had passed a rule last spring requiring parental permission for student motors. Cars were not allowed to enter the campus. The council believed that was sufficient prohibition. Dean Gauss...