Word: threats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cleaning House. Though their defeat was limited, the sensitive Russians characteristically prepared to launch a diplomatic counteroffensive. Poland, Russia's stooge, served notice that she would bring before the Security Council a charge that the Franco regime in Spain was a threat to world peace. Russia might also object to U.S. troops in China and Iceland...
...fourth day, the elevator brought Mohamed AH Jinnah, leader of India's Moslems and the most dangerous threat to Indian unity. He had repeatedly threatened that unless the Moslems were granted the separate state of Pakistan and complete independence from India's Hindu majority, he would sabotage all further negotiations, even if it meant civil war. After a three-hour conference, Jinnah was wan and grim, but he forced a tight-lipped smile for the photographers...
Last week the Senate: CJ Ignoring the President's veto threat, tacked a rider to the minimum wage bill permitting a farmer to include farm labor costs in computing parity prices. CJ Received a Banking Committee recommendation that Harry Truman's old friend and naval aide, Commodore James K. ("Commodore Cluck") Vardaman, be confirmed for a 14-year term on the Federal Reserve Board...
...call upon the Roman Catholic Church to be a church and not to attempt to be a state and a church. We shall bring practices to light that we believe constitute a threat to religious freedom. We shall speak firmly but in brotherly spirit...
...light of all this, China-wise businessmen found it hard to explain why Hunt was bowing out now. Some put it down to increasing exchange difficulties, the threat of China's new and retroactive company law (TIME, Nov. 26). Others thought the reputed $3 million sale price reason enough. Best explanation probably came from Hunt himself: somewhere he saw bigger fields and greener lands...