Word: threats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second Congressional problem faced the President hard upon the first: the major threat to his Administration which Chairman Martin Dies of the House Committee on UnAmerican Activities seemed to be rapidly becoming. Mr. Dies put out last week a report which loudly attacked Secretary of Labor Perkins for "unbelievable laxity" in handling alien agitators, Secretary of the Interior Ickes for baiting the Committee, Secretary of Commerce Hopkins for harboring Communists in WPA. Mr. Dies demanded $150,000 to continue his investigation, and the President learned that many another Congressman's mail was filled with warnings that Mr. Dies...
This confronted the President with a formidable threat to his Cabinet. He had an answer to it at press conference last week. His answer was to announce with gusto that his new Attorney General, Frank Murphy-the man whom Mr. Dies last fall accused of being too soft on communistic sitdowners-would have Department of Justice agents investigate all charges of subversive activities made by Mr. Dies. Meanwhile, to keep from casting fuel on flames, Secretary Ickes was restrained from delivering an oratorical blast entitled "Loaded Dies...
Charlie Boudreau, speedy Cambridge right wing, who has been instrumental in keeping his team in the first three of the Greater Boston Schoolboy League, rivalled Lloyd as a scoring threat. In the first period his high shot bounced by Harvey Taylor, and on a dash similar to Lloyd's evened up the tally at 2-2 at the end of the second period...
...biology should teach humanity: "All men are created unequal. No politics or poetry or dogma in this; just a straight clean fact of prime importance to decent thinking on human social problems; and possibly a fact that must be learned, digested and assimilated . . . before unreason ceases to be a threat to all forms of democratic government...
What with depression, Seiberling Rubber still owed $2,350,000 in January 1937. But the banks by the terms of the indenture could not liquidate the U. S. Rubber collateral without first liquidating Seiberling Rubber Co. To stave off this threat, F. A. Seiberling arranged for Ohio Goodyear to take over the notes, a bookkeeping transaction to which the banks consented because the indenture was rewritten with the U. S. Rubber stock as first collateral. Edgar Davis consented because the banks agreed to lend Ohio Goodyear $500,000 for an oil venture Davis was interested...