Word: ultimatum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...refused, revealed that those dates were reserved for Los Angeles. Worse, the N. A. A. had also sanctioned the Daily News' "International Air Races" for Sept. 1-4. Outraged, the Tribune declared it would run its own meet without sanction. That brought forth an N. A. A. ultimatum that any pilot taking part in an unsanctioned meet would be barred from sanctioned meets for from one to three years, depending on the amount of prize money involved. A few rebels defied the N. A. A. order, taxied to the starting line at the Chicago Tribune's outlaw meet...
...uremia; in Cannes, France. Commander of the Second Battle Squadron in the Mediterranean, he distinguished himself during the War for the successful landing of troops on the Gallipoli Peninsula. Bland of countenance, monocle in eye, he (with Marshal Foch, General Weygand, Rear Admiral George Hope) presented the Armistice ultimatum to the Germans in 1918. After the War he formally received the German fleet at Scapa Flow...
...preferred stock, the new bank to take over 50% of the deposits and the liquid assets of the old banks. It struck Detroit's businessmen as ruinous to liquidate their two old banks, but they regarded the word from Washington as an ultimatum. They despatched a flight of telegrams in protest* and convened to obey. Meetings began. Alfred P. Sloan...
...they were bound for Hungarian troops. Fortnight ago Italian papers splashed out revelations of a secret joint note from France and Britain to Austria demanding that the 50,000 Hirtenberg guns be either destroyed or shipped back to Italy (TIME, Feb. 27). Il Duce's protests at this "ultimatum" did not change the fact that the Austrian government of Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss is dependent on French and British loans. The Chancellor prepared to knuckle down to his big creditors...
Married. Gilbert Wolff Kahn, 29, banker son of Manhattan Banker Otto Hermann Kahn, divorced husband of Anna Elizabeth Whelan Kahn, cigar store heiress; and Sara Jane Heliker, 22, Manhattan showgirl who last month quit Take a Chance at the groom's ultimatum; in Manhattan...