Word: threatening
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...many bears threaten to spoil the touring in Yellowstone Park too many beavers interfere with travel in Palisades InterstatePark (New York and New Jersey). Two dozen of the nocturnal, Hooveresque rodents dammed one stream so successfully that it backed up and floodeda highway. Major W. A. Welch, the park manager and engineer, set traps, caught the entire offending colony, saved State money by transferring the animals last week to a swamp which he wanted transformed into a lake to improve the scenery...
...Evanston, Ill., A. J. Robinson was released from custody when he promised no more to threaten death to Professor Ernest Laurer of Northwestern University. Declared Robinson: "My daughter, Roslyn, attended Professor Laurer's class in history five years ago. He taught her the theory of evolution. . . . She began to brood over it and that led to a nervous breakdown and death. I blame him for her death...
...widow is Mrs. Katherine Ryan of St. Paul, 60, tall, handsome, persistent. In 1904 her husband, the late Kingsley Ryan, patented four mechanical self-locking nut & bolt devices. In 1913 she renewed the patents, began to file suits and threaten suits against steel companies. She obtained an $18,000 settlement out of court from U. S. Steel. Although the settlement included her promised "good behaviour" in the future, she now claims the old suit had nothing to do with the patents on which her present suit is based...
...that "Facist" committees had called on Atlanta employers of Negroes, ordered them, under threats of violence, to discharge their black help and hire jobless Black Shirts, in violation of a Federal statute providing ten years in jail and a $5,000 fine for persons who "conspire to injure, oppress, threaten or intimidate any citizen in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the constitution or laws...
...constitutes trespass by aircraft. Today virtually all jurists agree that a property owner has control of the space above only to the extent that he can actually make use of it, or for protecting the rights which he enjoys on the surface.* Thereby hangs a variety of interpretations which threaten to become more confusing with the increase of airports and aircraft...