Word: threats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the world's best correspondents cabled the greatest stories of their lives. In every capital of Europe they followed the swift unfolding of as big a crisis as war or its threat could make (see p. 32). No one of them could see it all. Its spread was too enormous, its moves too rapid and secret, its possibilities too terrifying. But because no crisis in history has been so fully reported, their accounts made a pattern, threw a strong light on the strength and weakness of the antagonists, whether the conflict was to be waged with diplomatic...
Relatively stronger than the line, the backfield will be packed with offensive power, with three starting triple-threat men. Macdonald runs equally well to the right or left, is a good passer, and a better than average punter. Harlow intends to switch Torbie from wing-back to tail-back this year...
...worth a bosun's whistle if Japan really attacked the possession. Last week's maneuver, though its announced purpose (like that of the occupation of Canton in October 1938) was to cut the flow of supplies into Free China, was obviously also intended as a threat to Hong Kong. The Japanese military warned British authorities 48 hours beforehand of the intended move, and brought supplies, indicating a long stay...
...sudden change of heart brought these strange bedfellows together. They were alarmed at the calamities mounting up for The Netherlands' empire-four Cabinet crises in three months, a threat to the rich Netherlands Indies with every increase of Japanese influence in Asia, pressure from Germany, a mounting financial panic at home. Two days after they took office Jonkheer de Geer's gravity was justified. The Netherlands' leading investment banking house closed its doors...
...training to which she was accustomed. So the Committee's sober Chairman Avery Brundage threatened to kick her off the team. Her newspaper friends, who had been finding the voyage dull, set the radio crackling. By the time the Manhattan docked and Mr. Brundage had made good his threat, factions in the athletic world were divided in partisan schisms. Eleanor was thoroughly sore and dejected. In her suitcase she had a $1,000-a-week theatre contract contingent on her winning another championship. Then she got off the boat to find herself besieged with theatre offers, among them...