Word: ultimatum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hearing from MacArthur was plainly what few Democrats relished. While they hemmed & hawed about inviting the general to address Congress, Joe Martin hurled an ultimatum. If they didn't make up their minds by that very afternoon, Douglas MacArthur would proceed to New York and address the nation from there."* Suddenly, opposition evaporated. With a concurring nod from Harry Truman, the Democrats announced that they would be glad to join in honoring such a great general with a "joint meeting" (slightly less formal than a joint session) this week. Word went out from the White House...
Last week MacArthur spoke to the enemy again. He threw down no ultimatum. Instead, he proposed negotiations for a truce on the field of battle. With the offer went a warning that the fight might be carried to the Chinese mainland if it was unduly prolonged. Said MacArthur...
...outcome there, he was sure the issue would eventually go right on up to his old colleagues on the U.S. Supreme Court, too. Last week Jimmy Byrnes gave the South Carolina Education Association (white teachers only) his thoughts on segregation, and along the way served an astonishing ultimatum...
...result of that ultimatum was the Lightning Messenger Service-"Quick as a Flash." With a rickety model T, 5,000 blotters printed on credit and a borrowed telephone, Di Salle soon worked up a brisk business to support his wife and still keep on at law school. Di Salle finished law school (at 23), but had a dispute with the dean. "It was all a question of degree," says Mike. "I didn't get it." (Now that he has come up in the world and the law school has a new dean, Di Salle will soon get a retroactive...
...index had risen 1.5% between Dec. 15 and Jan. 15-thus 2,700,000 workers, mostly in the automobile and electrical industries, would get increases up to 5/ an hour. But no wage or price formula would get at the real reason for organized labor's onslaught. The ultimatum made that clear. The U.L.P.C. wanted a hand on the controls, not just a place at the navigator's table. The U.L.P.C. wanted to strike down the one-man rule of the ODM, and in the end-although no labor leader had said it publicly-liquidate ODM Boss Charlie...