Word: threats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Threat. The U.S. last week sent a probably futile note to Warsaw protesting the Government's violation of the Yalta provision for a "free and unfettered" vote. The one concrete result of continued Western watchfulness, as evidenced by the U.S. note, was Mikolajczyk's personal safety-so far. But foreign correspondents in Warsaw feared that, after a Communist election victory, things might take a grimmer turn between the neighbors of No. 16 Szucha Avenue. Few people would be surprised if there should be a sudden vacancy. As everywhere else, apartments are scarce in Warsaw and Mikolajczyk crowds...
...great influx of students who would never have come here without the G.I. Bill presents the strongest threat yet to a Brahmin coolness and a decentralized social way of life that have been refined over 300 careful years. Whether a more rebust House program is feasible and whether increased facilities from the College would help, only experiment can tell. But now, painfully aware that learning can be acquired outside of textbooks as well as within, many an undergraduate is not receiving full value on his Harvard education...
Correspondents leaped to fill in the comparison between the 1933 Hitler threat-which George Messersmith had recognized at first glance-and the present-day threat of Communism. There was no mistaking what George Messersmith meant. Like many another diplomat in Latin America, he knew that the principal cell of Communist infiltration in Latin America in the late '30s and early '40s was in Mexico, under the skilled hand of the late Constantine Oumansky. Like others, he now believes that the cell has shifted to South America, where Communists are working and organizing like beavers (see LATIN AMERICA...
...worried about competition from the new Ford tractor, which will also have a hydraulic control mechanism. Said Kyes with a hard grin: "I recall that we have a number of patents." Old Henry Ford was never frightened by the threat of patent suits. Whether young Henry is remains to be seen...
Until it is returned, Technology students are faced with the threat of a police investigation. Apparently they would rather let the bridge keep its present name than draw the eye of Mickey Sullivan's gendarmerie upon their machinations through any new publicity stunts...