Word: threats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...page skimpiness).* Shinwell became a byword and a hissing. A music-hall comedian punned: "Be sure your Shinwell find you out." The House of Lords cheered as Viscount Swinton belabored him with "We suffer not from an act of God, but the inactivity of Emanuel." Shinwell got a bomb threat, and Scotland Yard put four constables around his small house in Tooting. Tooted Mrs. Shinwell: "Let them try to harm him!" Would her husband resign (as the Tory press had demanded and some Laborites had privately suggested)? Said Mrs. Shinwell: "I don't see why. I should like...
...Vanguard steamed on, city fathers in Cape Town, Johannesburg and Pretoria worked feverishly, decorating their cities with colored lights and bunting. Striking bakers decided to go back to work in honor of the visit, with the threat to strike again when the King had gone home. In Cape Town 18 young men (carefully matched in weight and height) were reported practicing on a three-inch bar suspended like a tightrope to perfect their balance when they took over as stewards on the royal train. Snapped the New Statesman's Kingsley Martin when this news reached London: "Buckingham Palace needs...
...most Britons. Drifting snow had cut many important rail lines; many roads were blocked. Machinery at some mines was frozen over. The gap between Britain's long-dwindling coal production and consumption had thinned to the point of immediate disaster to Britain's export program and threat to her entire economy...
...Interisland shipping has been slowly reconstructed, although beef from southernmost Mindanao is still being flown to Manila because of the lack of refrigerator ships. A thousand surplus tractors have helped boost carabao-geared farm production; the Filipinos are now nearly self-sufficient in food. There is no threat of cholera, which daily kills scores in Bangkok ; no plague, which continually ravishes part of China. Three million children, compared to a prewar two million, are back in school. Driving through Mindanao, I was amazed at the number of schools. Communal problems there are small. Said one Mohammedan datu (chieftain...
...increased its number of seats in the House of Commons from eight to 28. In the latest provincial elections in British Columbia and Nova Scotia the party gained in popular vote while losing seats. In Manitoba, it gained both ways. To meet the socialist threat, Tories and Liberals in Manitoba and British Columbia have coalesced...