Word: threats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hawkes's place, they nominated as their candidate David Van Alstyne, 51, OF Englewood, majority leader in the state senate and wealthy Wall Street broker. But Hawkes did not want to quit. Crying "a threat to our free primary system," he announced that he would run anyway...
...Given a choice on the one hand the sure and immediate horrors and costs of war, to ourselves as individuals and to our nation as a social democracy, and on the other hand, peace now but the possibility of a German victory and some future threat to the United States as a result, we choose the latter alternative. And we think that here stands with us the vast Army of Americans...
...paper had become a weekly, but the harried atmosphere of news reporting was not apparent until the rival Harvard Herald began putting out extras on sports events which Boston papers credited with being "the fastest ever known in the newspaper world." The more staid CRIMSON met this threat to supremacy by amalgamating with the Herald in a bargain which gave the CRIMSON every conceivable advantage, and henceforth it became a daily...
...Chairman Knutson bumped into an unexpected obstacle. Treasury Secretary John Snyder, usually mild and conciliatory in his dealings with Congressmen, belligerently denounced the Knutson bill as inflationary, deficit-producing and, in short, "a major threat to the nation's financial integrity." Chairman Knutson reacted by subjecting his witness to a day-Jong badgering. Other Republicans were quick to realize that John Snyder was broadening a hint already made by the President: the Knutson bill, as it stood, would be vetoed. Good & scared, they began to talk of bringing the tax slash down to around $4 billion. At week...
...federal court test of the Lea Act-a piece of legislation which had been written for the specific purpose of bringing him to trial for making radio stations hire standby musicians. He was also negotiating a new contract with the major U.S. radio networks, a process which involved the threat of a walkout by his musicians...