Word: threats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...FEPC, and the Democratic Party, are under equal pressure from Negroes. FEPC, itself, was established as the result of a Negro threat in 1941 to march, 50,-ooo strong, on Washington. The threatener: Florida-born, New York-educated A. (for Asa) Philip Randolph, 54, who, though no porter himself, runs the airtight sleeping car porters union. He has been the main author of the relentless pressure on FEPC ever since. In political terms, if FEPC moves forward, it is damned by Southern Democrats; if it stands still, it receives the scorn of the Negro population-and may lose...
Meantime the threat of still another coal strike diminished last week, when John L. Lewis and about two-thirds of the nation's bituminous coal operators (with the other third likely to follow) signed a contingent two-year, no-strike contract-conceding Leader Lewis' wage demands. Contingencies: i) the War La" bor Board must approve the contract; 2) somebody, either OPA or Congress, must let the operators charge more for their coal...
Mother Advocate made good her threat to retaliate on those Bow Street boys with a secret weapon, in a deceptive attack last evening on the Poon Building, Yank Levy style. The secret weapon was unmasked and its effects gleam brightly on the portals to the Lampoon...
Russia. The Red Army blunted the Wehrmacht's most serious counter-threat: its strong wedge in the Kiev sector...
...days later, the survivors returned with reinforcements to retake Changteh. The Japs seized or burned the rice stores, retreated when it was obvious that the Chinese lines would only bend, not break. Once again Chinese resistance and Jap half measures had disposed of a threat to U.S. air bases in central China, a threat which might have been serious if the Japs had chosen to bring enough strength against the ill-fed, ill-equipped Chinese...