Word: threats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...teams figured to be a real threat in the 1939 race, Coach Jim Tatum's Ithacans, were roundly whalloped in dangerous Dixieland this spring and got back just in time to drop their League opener to an improved Penn to the tune of 6 to 3. In justice to the Big Red team, however, it must be said that injuries, sickness, and lack of practice have retarded their progress...
...where both C. I. O.'s and Homer Martin's U. A. W. claim bargaining rights, big G. M. will bargain with neither. In the circumstances C. I. O.'s renewed plans to organize Ford Motor Co. were more of an exercise in optimism than a threat to Henry Ford...
PARIS--France said to have joined Britain in warning to Italy. Threat of "full force of British and French arms" reported invoked in case of Fascist attempts to upset Mediterranean status...
...bulging, well-documented Franco index (said to contain some 2,000,000 names) was being annotated from the personal memories of the Fifth Column. Moreover, a large portion of the Loyalist population was being forced, under the threat of punishment, to become informers. The Serenas, picturesque night watchmen who let people into their homes late at night for a small tip, were ordered for questioning. The two oldest inhabitants of any building in which ''murder, robberies, looting, arrests or any other offenses were committed" were ordered to appear before military courts. All those possessing documents, pamphlets, court records...
...More important were the Mehrer's "treaties." One with Lithuania made that country increasingly a Nazi economic domain. And an unprecedented economic agreement with Rumania, signed under a virtual threat of invasion, gave the Reich almost all the oil, wheat and agricultural produce of King Carol's large and fertile domains. Just to make things official, Aggrandizer Hitler also formally assumed a 25-year protectorate over Slovakia. To show that he had interests out side of Europe, the Mehrer signed a "most-favored-nation" commercial treaty with Manchukuo, Japan's Far Eastern satellite...