Word: ultimatum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...week, he discussed it thoroughly not. only with M. Poincaré at Paris, but next day in Brussels with the Belgian Finance Minister Baron Maurice Houtart. At present the total "legal liability" of Germany to the allies stands fixed at 132 billion gold marks by the so-called "London Ultimatum" of 1921; but no one dreams that so huge a sum will ever be paid in full and the Dawes Plan functions ad interim to limit the sums which can be exacted from Germany in a given year...
...Coal Ultimatum. Hearing how many a potent coal mine operator had declined to accept Secretary of Labor Davis's invitation to a strike-settlement conference (see THE CABINET), Victor L. Berger of Wisconsin, lone Socialist in the House, offered a resolution to have the U. S. take over the coal mines if the operators sought to "continue to rule or ruin, as they see fit, one of the Nation's basic industries." In 1902, when under similar conditions President Roosevelt issued a similar ultimatum, the coal operators surrendered. Last week, the House referred Mr. Berger's resolution...
...year immediately after the murders. On his return to his native land he received a large grant of land at Uskub, where he lived in affluence until his death. His part in the assassination, for which he was named in the Austro-Hungarian ultimatum to Serbia, was restricted to supplying bombs from the royal arsenal in Belgrade...
...Ultimatum. Feng Yu-hsiang made known his stand to Chiang Kai-shek by announcing that he had sent an "ultimatum" to the Chinese "Communists" at Hankow, thus...
...ultimatum to Nicaraguans read-"The forces of the U. S. will be authorized to accept the custody of the arms of those willing to lay them down . . . and to disarm, forcibly those who will...