Word: threats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Behind the treaty's signing was a background of money, diplomatic scheming, intrigue, the threat and promise of arms. Undoubtedly assisting French Ambassador René Massigli and British Ambassador Sir Hughe Montgomery Knatchbull-Hugessen in their talks with Turkish statesmen was the fact that they could promise an immediate large credit. Impressive also to practical-minded Turks must have been the fact that in nearby Syria that old French Near East campaigner, General Maxime Weygand, had collected an imposing Army of 50,000 Frenchmen and that farther south in Jerusalem Lieut.-General Archibald Percival Wavell, who during...
...much service. But Hayden is a competent back, and Harvard has good reason to remember his running mate, Bill Hutchinson. Bob Krieger is slated to start at end, but Coach Blaik may be compelied to shift him into the backfield. In this event he will be a distant threat, but no MacLeod by any means. The Minneapolis school-boy sensation has yet to prove him-self in intercollegiate competition...
...alarmed Freshman coaxed and forced the red-skinned intruder out of his room and barred the door. But before leaving the building, the Brave war-whooped a threat that with reinforcements he would return to his lawful residence today...
Jack Bronston, triple-threat man, starred for the Dormitory team, while Plugger Young, Henry Evertt, and Vince Rossi looked good in the line...
...United States are concerned, Professor Elliott claims that "there is no serious threat of our being drawn into the conflict," that the immediate problem is planning a national policy for a long war. The greatest threat to the position of this country he feels lies in possible action by the Japanese navy in the Pacific, where it is essential that the United States maintain a balance of power in the Far East "in which it holds the balance...