Word: threats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Congress now had a new kind of permanent investigating committee. In irresponsible hands it could, as it often had under Martin Dies, become a threat to civil liberties, by using the authority and prestige of Congress for unscrupulous or bigoted ends. In Jasper, Tex., where he heard about the coup, Martin Dies, Congressman no longer, beamed...
...going so well for us. This is said not in a spirit of defeatism or alarm but because what has happened in the last three weeks can be regarded not only as a setback but as a threat. In the three weeks since Dec. 16 the enemy has lengthened the front by 225 miles and has passed to the offensive along the entire western front...
...candidate, Godfrey was a surprise threat whose seriousness seemed all the greater because nobody knew how great it really was. Normally, CCFer Godfrey could hardly expect to win in a constituency that has always voted for the old-line parties. But this election was not normal. Postwar problems entered into the campaign, but it was being fought largely on the grave issue of conscription. In a three-cornered fight, if Godfrey took enough votes away from McNaughton, Tory Candidate Case might win. But Tories foresaw a split of the anti-Liberal vote. If his candidate lost, Prime Minister King would...
Little additional light could be shed on the latest 4-F draft scare at press time last night, although the threat to the nation's colleges was made more specific by some commentators...
...that each of them retains an equal right to its own sovereignty. . . . An essential point in any future international arrangement would be the formation of an organ for the maintenance of peace, of an organ invested by common consent with supreme power ... to smother in its germinal state any threat of isolated or collective aggression...