Word: threats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Throughout was the covert threat that if Mrs. Moore's replies were unsatisfactory, Mrs. Potts would advise the clients of the National Patriotic Council to refrain from attending Mrs. Moore's meetings...
...they not taken this vow in 1920, the then Attorney General, A. Mitchell Palmer, would probably have sued them for breach of the trust laws. Trust-busting having become so unfashionable (TIME, Feb. 23, BUSINESS), it seemed unlikely that Attorney General Sargent would execute his predecessor's threat...
Perhaps the authorities fear that the sentimental reaction that most hunger strikes engender among hoi polloi will harm their party were they to let Miss MacSwiney carry out her harmless threat. Unquestionably the public watches with awe and apprehension the lengthening days of the hunger strike, lending the victims a gradually increasing support of maudlin sympathy. Since the days of Pre-war Suffragettes in England, the hunger strike has become the last resort of persons who could not attain their ends by any other method...
...sort of "scholastic Walpurgis Night" ensued; restraint was thrown to the winds and college exercises, as well as many students, were suspended. Finally, in a climax of resentment, the entire Sophomore class carried out its favorite threat and left Cambridge, 80 strong. A score or so were coaxed back and some 40 or 50 were subsequently pardoned...
...proposed Protocol to the Covenant of the League of Nations-a document devised last summer to maintain the status quo in Europe, to enable European Powers to disarm and to set up a system of obligatory arbitration of international disputes under threat of combined punitive measures (TIME, Sept. 8 et seq.)-was last week unanimously declared dead (because the British Commonwealth of Nations does not intend to sign it) and the whole question of security loomed large in the politics of Europe...