Word: threats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...White House GHQ, with everything staked on bringing Lewis to his knees, planned an even stricter embargo. They wheeled up other heavy weapons: an all-out Presidential speech, the threat of another fine, the sending of troops to guard the mines...
...spoke, he said, as president of 600,000 coal miners, vice president of almost 8,000,000 members of A.F.L. Did he imply the threat of a general strike? He could not permit, he said, letting his voice rise a bit, "the ugly recrudescence of government by injunction." Labor must stand on its "constitutional rights...
...This is not the act of a low lawbreaker," he said, speaking of the strike. "But it is an evil, demoniac, monstrous thing that means hunger and cold and unemployment and destitution and disorganization of the social fabric; a threat to democratic government itself, and it is proper for me to say at this point that if actions of this kind can be successfully persisted in, the Government will be overthrown, and the Government that would take its place would be a dictatorship and that the first thing the dictatorship would do would be to destroy the labor unions...
Although the revolt had not spread to the general public, many Britons were becoming increasingly annoyed with the U.S. Some simply envied America's comparative wealth of food, nylons and gadgets. Others were concerned with the "humiliations" of the recent U.S. loan, and the threat of an American business recession; most of all, they chafed whenever the U.S. seemed to pursue a policy independent of Britain...
College followers found that Coach Bill Barclay had instituted a should attack in his first appearance as a Varsity menior, and the undersized Techmen were able to pose a serious threat to Crimson supremacy only once, when the visitors moved to within five points of the Varsity, trailing 26 to 21 early in the second half...