Word: threats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Would the Willkie wing secede from the Party if Willkie fails of the nomination? The threat was hardly that strong; but it served notice on the G.O.P. National Committee that the Willkiemen will fight for every tactical advantage. At Chicago this week they had given in on one point: the choice of Chicago as the convention city. They won another, perhaps more important: setting of an (early convention date, probably June 26. For the Willkiemen figure they will need months of work to reorganize the G.O.P., tossing overboard National Chairman Harrison Spangler and friends...
Barry Wood was the Crimson's All-American Dean's List scholar athlete of yesteryear and a triple threat at that. Another famed Harvard character is "Copey" Professor Charles Townsend Copeland, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, emeritus. Annually he attracts a packed hall to listen to him as he intones familiar and unfamiliar words from the Bible, Kipling, Stephen Leacock, Harvardman, Robert Benchley '12, and many more...
...might have been the herald of invasion. It might have been practice for invasion. Or it might have been a calculated blow at some Nazi threat to coming invaders-or to England. Nazi propagandists and London censors, alike interested in concealing the precise nature of any such threat, encouraged the report that the target was a concentration of cross-Channel rocket guns...
...torpedoed in 1941, but may be fit for service again. Despite the catchy description, she is no battleship, but an armored cruiser of around 12,000 tons. For the rest, aside from a few light cruisers, destroyers and torpedo boats, the German Navy's sole remaining surface threat is the aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin, never yet in action, and last reported hiding out in the Baltic port of Stettin...
...mile-long island, defended by an ill-armed garrison and ancient cannon, would have dropped like a ripe banana into the hands of the Japs. So the French welcomed U.S. forces, at first. But U.S. forces soon outnumbered the colonists and, with the vanishing of a Jap invasion threat, irritations between the two populations cropped...