Word: threats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only strike Hollywood studios but through his close connections with unionized projectionists would close 15,000 movie houses throughout the U. S. Although War II had cut off $44,000,000 of annual revenues from foreign film sales and economy was in order, the producers capitulated to this threat, and Willie Bioff announced a victory. In fact, however, his victory was not as sweeping as he made it appear. He had won an understanding that wages will go up temporarily, will stay up beyond next Feb. 15 only if company earnings justify the rise...
...Baker's running mate Bill Hutchinson of Dartmouth steps to the fore. Without a peer as a gridiron opportunist this fleet Indian back was a scoring threat every second he was playing against all opposition this fall. John McLaughry of Brown, as brutal a bucker as Ivy League football has over seen had an off-year but still gets the call over Rainwater, Chismadia, or Seymour
...peace conference at Versailles brought the threat of the big powers forcing The Netherlands to cede to a reconstituted Belgium the southern portions of Zeeland and Limburg provinces, which lie next to Belgium. This was averted not only by the Queen's dramatic tour of these provinces but also by the presence in Versailles of two South African statesmen of Boer origin, Generals Colin Graham Botha and Jan Christiaan Smuts. They remembered that it was Wilhelmina who in 1900 defied the British by sending a Dutch warship to pick up Boer Leader Paul Kruger and bring him to safety...
...heavy rain, landed on the China coast near Pakhoi, about 100 miles from the Indo-Chinese border, and thence drove inland toward the city of Nanning. This was their long-expected drive to cut the routes to China from French Indo-China and British Burma. It was a threat not only to China (which will be dry as a rootless tree if the routes are cut) but also to French and British and indirectly Dutch and U. S. interests in the Far East...
...Angeles), with its three Negro headliners, could beat Santa Clara (beaten only by the powerful Texas Aggies). In Los Angeles' Coliseum, 50,000 fans watched a bruising game that ended in a scoreless tie and increased the humble Uclans' prestige as a formidable West Coast team-a threat to the University of Southern California's Rose Bowl aspirations...