Word: threatening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unsecured paper obligations of foreign governments. Virtually the only governments whose paper of that kind was involved were England and France, whose American agent, in their pay, was J. P. Morgan & Co. ... It was Morgan & Co. who suggested the way to destroy it [the warning] was for England to threaten to cease purchasing American goods...
Italy alone stands in the way. Since 1934 all of Mussolini's moves have been aimed at driving wedges between the Allies' Eastern and Western Fronts. From Sicily, Sardinia and the Spanish Balearics, the Italians menace Britain's island of Malta; from Libya they threaten Egypt. Off the coast of Asia Minor they have a naval base at Leros in that happy hunting ground of submarines-the Aegean. The master stroke of recent Italian history was the seizure of Albania. For between Albania's capital of Tirana and the Greek port of Salonika there...
...threaten eventual paralysis of the entire G. M. organism this autumn, pugnacious little Walter Reuther, director of the G. M. department of United Automobile Workers, last week called 800 toolmakers in a Fisher Body plant at Detroit out on strike. Next day he called out 2,900 more in four other G. M. plants, next day 2,300 in four more. His technique, new and shrewdly conceived, was not unlike amputating one finger at a time to cripple a hand. It was painful to the corporation; it was stimulating, exciting for the workers: something new in the newspapers every...
...faith in these, President Few says: "I'm backin' him, ain't I?" Dr. Few believes Duke needs much more money, wishes it were as rich as Harvard. Old Dr. Few just now is irked by New Deal public power projects and taxes, which threaten the income from the Duke endowment, largely invested in the Duke North Carolina power companies. To critics like Abraham Flexner, who characterized activities of the Duke Foundation as "a conspicuous . .. abuse of private power," he retorts: "Not a particle of truth...
...German navy, consisting of four or five battleships, three "pocket" battleships, 15 cruisers and close to 100 submarines, cannot hope to engage British (or even French) headon. But its submarines can threaten Britain's food-line, and if the battleships and cruisers can scatter over the high seas before war breaks out they can do considerable damage as commerce and convoy raiders...