Word: threats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With this threat blazoned, the British note went on to asperse individually and by name five officials of the Soviet Government. Example: Georg Tchitcherin, Soviet Foreign Minister, was described as possessed of the "delusion . . . [and] obsession, which is as illogical as ill-founded . . . that Great Britain is continually plotting against the Union of Socialist Soveit Republics...
...London press reacted coldly to the note, took the tone that its charges were true but that such strong language was appropriate only to an actual breaking off of negotiations, and could do no good as a threat. The Independent Rothermere Evening News reflected the general attitude when its editor wrote wittily...
...difference in color of lights. Dealers. Road agents selected Ford dealers on the basis of good habits, home town standing and enthusiasm for the car itself. Ford dealers could sell only Ford cars. "Influences" that made Ford stock worth relatively little in 1913: Woodrow Wilson's threat to hang commercial malefactors "on a gallows as high as Haman"; New York's impeached Governor William Sulzer's threats against stock speculations; Theodore Roosevelt's trumpetings at "malefactors of great wealth."-Testimony of Arthur O. Choate, Manhattan investment banker...
...fast battle in the former engagement. Fryberger, Gardner and Rogers comprise a speedy forward line, while Captain Hardy and Lane, of football fame, at the points, were the stars of the last encounter. In R. Fryberger, speedy forward who starred last year, the Green will have a powerful' threat in reserve...
...first-string Crimson defense was impregnable. The speedy Noble, who played the entire game and was the chief Yale threat, could not get around or between Ellison and Clark. Several times he almost got a clear shot at the net, but always at the last moment the drive was spoiled. Vaughan also played a fine game for Yale, and his neat passes to Frey took the puck past the outer defense three or four times. Morrill, however, blocked the work of this combination except once in the last period, when Vaughan came in fast and knocked in the rebound...