Word: threats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wearily, EGA officials in Washington deflated Morrow's story. No contracts had been signed with any publishers, they said. All that had happened was that Generals Clay and Robertson had found no ground for disapproving the comics and thrillers as being either Nazi or a threat to security. A week late, the Times quietly corrected the irresponsible story...
That was Harvard's lone threat. Previously, with passer Don Wohitman as the prime mover, Trumbull had gone 45 yards in nine plays--Captain Frank Hartung scoring--and bucked across after 25 yards--Ross Cowan scoring. Harold McCauley's .500 placement record put the figures into the final order before the half...
Traditionally suspicious of any strong nation lying across the colonial lifelines, Great Britain is the one nation violently opposed to negotiations which would leave Israel dominant in the Middle East. British strategists view the emergence of a powerful state in Palestine as a direct threat to the Suez Canal, to the vital oil deposits in Iraq, and to the proposed airbases in the Negeb. For these purely military reasons, plus the fact that the Middle East is the one remaining area where Great Britain can exert Imperial power, the British have consistently supported the Arab cause and have pressed...
Sherwood says that Hopkins, Wallace and many another New Dealer were slow in understanding the threat to the U.S. in Axis aggression. But F.D.R. valued Hopkins enough to spell out patiently the facts of international life for him, and Harry learned so fast that by March 5, 1941, Secretary Stimson wrote in his diary: "The more I think of it, the more I think it is a Godsend that [Hopkins] should be at the White House...
...extremely serious event. It is serious not so much because of the injuries it caused but rather because it is a violent attack on the rights of a political minority. It is our opinion that such attacks--and they have been many in recent months--are a grave threat to the free institutions of American democracy. We believe that these attacks should be attributed to the current well-planned campaign of hysteria aimed at all progressives, and not primarily to the misled individuals who in many cases carry them out. This hysteria has certainly been heightened by the indictment...