Word: ultimatum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...government delegation, obviously intending to dicker over Iran's legal right to nationalize the oil fields. The Iranian government wanted to talk only to Anglo-Iranian company officials and only about how the company could help the Iranians take over. Mossadeq's government issued a virtual ultimatum to the British officials, asking them to help the Iranians and get ready to do it within five days...
Pamplona's governor issued an ultimatum to the workers: back to work by 2 p.m. or be fired. Nobody went back. Rather than fire 20,000 workers (every third person in Pamplona), the governor decided to forget his threat. On the third day of the strike, 5,000 Pamplonians tried to set fire to the government office in charge of food rationing. Civil Guards fired into the air, but wounded six people. That afternoon, for the first time in twelve years, a committee of workers met with officials of the government-controlled trade unions and government representatives. The government...
...Panamanians. Crowds gathered outside Chichi Remón's headquarters and clamorously demanded that he get rid of Arias. A general strike broke out. That night the National Assembly impeached Arias and swore in Vice President Alcibíades Arose. mena as President. Chichi sent Arias an ultimatum: get out or be booted out. Arnulfo holed up in the presidential palace with his henchmen. Police ringed the palace and began peppering the windows. After a four-hour battle, Arias gave up. As he left the palace under guard, he lifted his hand in a defiant salute...
Just before the concert was scheduled to begin in Birmingham, England, a local news photographer snapped an unauthorized shot of hot-tempered, camera-shy Conductor Leopold Stokowski, who blinked in anger and issued an ultimatum: hand over the film or there will be no concert. The photographer surrendered, waited patiently, caught the maestro unexpectedly for the second time after the concert was finished...
Hearst's King Features Syndicate, which distributes Winchell to some 600 papers, cut out the paragraphs attacking the Herald, although the New York Mirror, which gets the column direct from Winchell, had already printed it. Winchell exploded, ordered his secretary to serve King Features with an ultimatum: if they did not send out the missing paragraphs in 15 days, he was quitting. King Features did nothing, but Winchell was mollified when he discovered that the Miami Herald itself had spotted the anti-Herald diatribe in the Mirror and printed it. Said he, ruefully, at week...