Word: threats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cried the Philadelphia Record, "John Lewis is brandishing a coal shovel over the heads of the American people again." But when he faced the operators and U.M.W. representatives in the ballroom of Washington's Shoreham Hotel last week, John Lewis spoke softly. With just the right note of threat and regret, he said he hoped that "the public and Government will not be inconvenienced through stoppage or loss of tonnage vital to ... our war program...
...began when the Minneapolis musicians' local opened negotiations for a new contract by insisting that KSTP hire a minimum of eight staff musicians, three record turners. The dispute went to the War Labor Board. While awaiting a decision, the station got a restraining order to forestall a strike threat. Petrillo met that by ordering a strike, which worked. The Minneapolis court issued a warrant for Petrillo's arrest, which did not work: he stayed out of Minneapolis...
...Battle of Midway, Halsey was ailing and unavailable. Nimitz sent Raymond Ames Spruance out first with two carriers, then Frank Jack Fletcher with the Yorktown. As senior, Fletcher took overall command, but when the Yorktown retired from the fight, crippled, Spruance carried on. The victory ended the Jap threat to Hawaii, the Panama Canal and the U.S. itself. It was the turning point of the Pacific war. In announcing the triumph, Nimitz punned: "We are about midway to our objective...
...time for vitriolic German threats. Exhorted the Nazi Foreign Office spokesman: "Kill, murder and poison . . . cast overboard our last scruples." Perhaps the Nazi leadership, in the last ditch of desperation, would order gas or bacteriological warfare. But if the threat was another bluff, it was quickly called. SHAEF let the thing be said that had long been evident but unlabeled: that terror bombing of German cities was deliberate military policy. The German command could easily read between the lines an Allied warning...
...great immediate threat was from Nimitz, who could pick his way up the steppingstone islands to the mouth of Tokyo Bay. Whether Japan could be invaded before the Jap armies on the mainland of Asia had been engaged was still debatable. But the way to China did not necessarily lie through Luzon and Formosa. The Japs themselves had pointed to the possibility of a northern route through the Ryukyu Islands to the great ports around the mouth of the Yangtze River...