Word: threats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ignoring Arita's veiled threat, the U. S. Treasury Department announced last week the indefinite extension of an arrangement with China which permits China, when caught short of cash between her monthly shipments of silver to the U. S., to make and pay for purchases in this country by borrowing from the Treasury's $2,000,000,000 Stabilization Fund on the security of Chinese gold held in U. S. banks (estimated to be somewhere around $110,000,000). When China's next shipment of silver arrives in the U. S., she sells it to the Treasury...
...Schacht had been dispatched to England: 1) to persuade those interested in getting the Jews out of Germany to pay a "ransom" in the form of increased purchases of German goods; 2) to stave off Britain's threat to "fight Germany at her own game" for the trade in Central Europe and South America; 3) to get Britain to buy more from Germany than she has been doing...
...Chiang is driven from the upper Yangtze valley, he may eventually have to retire to the Soviet-controlled areas of Sinkiang and Outer Mongolia. Should that occur China's cause will necessarily become Russia's battle. For Russia cannot tolerate a Japanese threat to the long southern border of Siberia and the trans-Siberian railroad. But before that can happen Japan, which conquered one New China, will have to conquer still another New China not so strong in resources but much stronger in natural defenses...
MIAMI, Fla.--Harold "Jug" McSpaden of Winchester, Mass wan the biggest prize of his tournament career to day when he shot a one-under par 69 to turn back a savage, last-round threat by Henry Picard of Hershey, Pa., in the Miami open golf championship...
Harvard Varsity swimmers, undefeated for two years, will face this season's first threat to their supremacy tonight at 8:15 o'clock when they meet an Alumni delegation topped by last year's leader, Charlie Hutter...