Word: threats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week, said that the U-boats were being partly withdrawn to await new devices and new tactics, that eventually they would strike again. Well aware that the Allies had won their recent gains at sea with new devices and tactics, Allied Navy men did not laugh off this threat...
...issue was strictly domestic politics. Dyspeptic John Curtin had angered the Opposition by declaring publicly that the Jap invasion threat had passed. That looked as if the Prime Minister, with an eye on the regular elections in November, was making the biggest claim in Commonwealth political history: that Labor had saved the country. The Opposition's leader, Arthur W. ("Artie the Artful") Fadden, presumably thought that Curtin's popularity would rise as Allied prospects in the Pacific improved. Besides, the politicians wanted a showdown over controversial labor, social security and food policies...
Philadelphia fans, who have set a record for staying away from their home park in large numbers, now have good reason to want to flock inside. For the first time in ten years the Phillies are a solid first-division threat. After last Sunday's doubleheader, they were in fifth place in the National League standings, but only eight games behind the world champion Cardinals, two behind the third-place Pirates. They may still slide ignominiously back into Philly corner, at the bottom of the league. But Philadelphians are making the most of today. Some fans have already sent...
Shrewd, New Deal-hating Howard W. Smith, Virginia Democrat, author of a dozen anti-labor bills, warned: "This inflation threat is so dangerous, so imminent that I do not think we should burn this bridge down because we are mad at somebody." Representative Wright Patman of Texas counseled: "Remember that in Russia milk costs $7 a half pint, butter $70 a pound, a suit of clothes $450." The House, heedless, swept on. After months of inaction the members wanted to seize this first clear chance to smash at the Administration. Anti-Administration Democrats and Republicans alike joined...
...give force to his demands, De Gaulle stayed away from meetings of the Committee, threatened to resign. This his supporters could not permit; he was still the symbol of resistance. On the other hand, De Gaulle could not actually carry out his threat; Churchill had said that henceforth Britain's dealings, financial and otherwise, would be with the new Committee, no longer with the Fighting French...