Word: threats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Coal. The German mine owners failed to pay the tax imposed on them; but France has been unable to carry out her threat of commandeering the surface coal massed at the pit-heads, owing to the shortage of labor. She has, however, stated that every effort will be made to obtain foreign labor with which to move the coal and coke in the Ruhr...
...oligarchy so powerful that the whole country would be at their mercy. So the Government broke their power, dissolved the great pools and combinations, hedged the railroad business about with a complex set of rules and regulations, and held the Sherman Act like a gun at their backs. The threat of autocracy vanished, but in its stead came a progressive loss of efficiency and a growing condition of inadequate transportation which reached a crisis during the war when the Government had to take over the roads to insure the movement of troops and supplies...
Beneath the surface of the play lies a threat against inelastic law. It is the law which allows a man to be sentenced to life-imprisonment for a murder he never committed and lets the same men go entirely free when he actually does shoot down a person in cold blood. Hence the title of the play...
...Fascista decree denying political rights to the Masons, comes the news of Serrati's arrest. Menotti Serrati is the editor of Avanti, most radical newspaper of the Socialist party. His arrest for plotting against the safety of the state is considered a vindication of Mussolini's recent threat that he would carry his war against Bolshevism into the enemy's camp...
Hall, the fastest man on the team, has but recently returned to the squad and is the greatest threat on the forward line. He is well supported by Sheehy, Foster and Perry, all of whom are reliable scorers. Neidlinger, in the Dartmouth goal, has had a great deal of experience and should give the University shooters considerable trouble...