Word: threats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York City, which last month weathered a ten-day tie-up by striking tugboat operators, now faced the threat of a far more serious strike: on all city-owned subway, elevated, streetcar and bus lines...
Mayor William O'Dwyer, who had backpedaled before a Quill strike threat only a month before (over a proposed sale of the city's subway power plants to Consolidated Edison) seemed helpless to move anywhere this time. The city's counsel, John J. Bennett Jr. had issued a ruling: "It is clear that no one group of civil-service employes can be granted sole and exclusive bargaining rights as against a governmental body such as the [New York City] Board of Transportation...
...organization. As a Socialist, Bevin recognized the meaning of the satellite bloc Russia is forming on her borders. He has long been eager to balance it with a Socialist grouping in Western Europe. Communists-but not the Kremlin-have said that such a move would be a threat to Russia. Bevin told the House of Commons that he had "deliberately raised" the question at Moscow last December with Stalin: "You want friendly neighbors. Well, in my street I want friendly neighbors too." He reminded Stalin of the Anglo-Soviet 20-year treaty of friendship, offered to lengthen...
With Brazilians, Perón was said to have this understanding: they would support him in Inter-American circles just to the extent that he threatened continental security. Brazil would then continue to get help from the U.S. to combat the Argentine threat...
Communist Russia made no secret of its implacable hostility to religion, scarcely bothered to conceal its low regard for human life. Neither did Nazi Germany nor Fascist Italy, which made a mockery of their concordats with Rome. World War II by no means ended the totalitarian threat to Europe. The Soviet glacier edged deep into the old continent, froze such Catholic nations as Poland and Hungary in its grip. In the rest of Europe large masses still looked to Communism for salvation-or at least for retribution. In the long perspective of the Church, it was not hard to envision...