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...Crimson's biggest threat was squelched by the nimble antics of Brown's gargantuan catcher, Fidler, who added this insult to the injury already done when he carried the game-winning tally over the plate in the third round...
Prime Minister Mackenzie King, shrewd, cautious and fearful of the threat of civil war between English-and French-speaking Canadians over the issue of conscription for service overseas, had shoved through another compromise...
More than that, the fall of Egypt would be a threat to the entire Russian front, for the eastern European front extends in fact from Murmansk down through the Caucasus to the wreckage of Matr...
...mere threat of an offensive based on Suez, the Axis might well force Turkey out of her stubborn neutrality into collaboration with Germany. Then Russia would have the foe on her left flank, within reach of the Caucasian oilfields. But the threat would be greater than that. Once in the Near East, the German would be near British oil-the great wealth of the Iraq fields. These fields (with Russia's) are the last big oil source for a vast strategic area in which the Japanese have already snatched the rest of the wells. The sub-harried tankers...
Though elected by components of the now dead Popular Front, President Rios has already got tough with labor. While awaiting full powers under the Emergency Bill, he used its threat to outlaw and smash strikes, to clap strike leaders in jail, to intervene in and control trade-union elections. Among the semi-dictatorial powers the new bill grants the President is that of declaring "emergency zones" and a "state of siege." suspending constitutional guarantees and permitting the "militarization" of labor elements...