Word: threatened
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Naval officers in general are heartily in favor of the success of a conference which would bring about parity as between the navies of England and the United States, provided that due regard is given to any reasonable danger that might threaten from any other direction...
...apprehension lest that same demand should wreck the Conference and prevent adoption of the Young Plan. "They feel," said Mr. Lamont, allowing himself to be directly quoted, "that failure to reach some agreement would mean international derangement. They feel it would endanger the gold standard [of Sterling] and would threaten British financial losses far greater than £2,000,000 a year?...
...their telephones, lock the crested gates of their country estate, refuse to be interviewed. For lack of facts, tabloids print lurid verbal composo-graphs, imaginary interviews, gossip gleaned in the Van Climber garage and scullery. Then the Van Climbers scowl and growl at the inaccuracy of the garbled stories, threaten to sue the offending journals...
Talking motion pictures which threaten to revolutionize so decidedly the stage and screen, will also be the instrument of making English the international language, according to the recent statement of a British film magnate. English as the practical successor to Esperanto may appear a visionary prospect until one considers the influence of the talkies in the far and near sections of the world. The younger set in the Fiji Islands, for example, are certain to become vitally interested in English upon beholding the magic of the silver screen and listening to the soft charm of the Hollywood talkies' silver tongue...
...with Great Britain. He argued that if England needed gold it ought not induce the Federal Reserve to interfere with U. S. prosperity by hampering Wall Street but should sell to the U. S. some of its island possessions off the Atlantic Coast, which possessions are naval bases that threaten U. S. security. Representative Garner, ranking Democrat on the Ways & Means Committee, thought that anti-speculative legislation was a "far-reaching" matter that ought to be "carefully considered...