Word: ultimatum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week as he posed for a TV film, and essayed some rolling perorations in the inimitable manner of the master, John L. Lewis. McDonald cried that in the current negotiations the steel industry had made an "about-face" on 20 years of collective bargaining, and given his union an "ultimatum" to accept a "substandard contract." After four weeks of negotiating between McDonald and U.S. Steel's John Stephens, the industry's chief spokesman, the differences boiled down to i) a union demand for a 28.3? an hour "package" deal v. a management offer of 14-15?, 2) management...
Summoned to their desks two hours ahead of schedule one day last week to consider the farm bill, U.S. Senators encountered an ultimatum from Lyndon Johnson: the majority leader expected final action on the measure by day's end. Ten hours later Johnson had his way. By voice vote the Senate approved a bill that is expected to fit easily with an earlier House bill...
...contain himself. He dashed off a letter demanding that Dehler recant and swear allegiance to Adenauer's policy. It was an appalling political error, the first sign that the sick old man was losing his legendary political instinct. Dehler had been slipping, but faced with such a humiliating ultimatum, a majority of his party rallied to him, and deserted the coalition. Adenauer's once-massive 334-vote majority shrank...
...athletes moved into fraternity houses or stayed with friends; a hastily elected committee of twelve, under Varsity End Dan Coyle, went to Crisp with an ultimatum: abolish the bed checks for athletes whose sport is not in season, grant unlimited weekend privileges, cancel the four-hour compulsory study rule. Otherwise, said the athletes, they would not go back to Friedman Hall and they would not even play for Alabama...
...themselves. But in many cases the power of racketeers is so great that such a move could never begin, even if it ever did, the move would hopelessly split the unions wide open. Just recently, the AFL-CIO Longshoreman's Union called upon the parent organization to deliver an "ultimatum" to the teamster's union, run by James Hoffa, "to clean up their organization." There is too great a chance, however, that Hoffa might simply laugh and with his union, which is the nation's largest and most strategic, leave the ranks of the AFL-CIO as the old Longshoreman...