Word: ultimatumed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trip, Mr. Hoover three weeks ago chatted amiably with Poland's white-haired President Ignacy Moscicki, Army Dictator Smigly-Rydz and Premier Felician Slawoj Skladkowski. A week after his visit. Hosts Moscicki, Smigly-Rydz and Skladkowski made their little neighbor, Lithuania, knuckle under to their will with an ultimatum (TIME, March 28). By this time Mr. Hoover had journeyed through Finland, Estonia, had missed a luncheon date with Sweden's Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf because fog delayed his Baltic steamer, and popped in on Copenhagen. From there he continued by plane for England to catch the Normandie...
...Roosevelt with a great show of forbearance extended the hearing another three days. When three days later Mr. Morgan reaffirmed his determination not to let the President rush in where Congress was anxious to tread, Franklin Roosevelt, who can be as bull-headed as anyone else, laid down his ultimatum, announced that if the Chairman would not agree to cooperate with his inquiry with-in 24 hours he must either resign or face suspension...
Meanwhile, not quite getting the point, excitable Polish crowds milled in Warsaw, screaming for the occupation of Lithuania by Polish forces, and it appeared that an "ultimatum" time limit of some sort had been attached to the Polish demands on Lithuania, although if there had been a definite limit events showed that it was later extended. Amid a world-wide eruption of ill-considered headlines it was suggested that Soviet Russia might give Lithuania armed aid against Poland, but a glance at the geographical situation showed that the Red Army could not reach Lithuania without first invading Poland or Latvia...
...this not been couched in the heated terms of an "ultimatum" by Poland and "yielding" by Lithuania, it would have appeared what it obviously was: a thawing out last week of a spat between two countries which has been permitted to remain frozen for nearly 18 years...
...protégé, Mr. Eden, and his pet aversion, Winston Churchill. It was suggested in the Leftist press that this galaxy of big British names might suddenly join with "the Hore-Belisha Young Turks" and it was said that Hore-Belisha had given Neville Chamberlain a "48-hour ultimatum." The 48 hours expired, and nothing happened. For a member of the Cabinet to hand the P.M. an ultimatum is something which in London simply isn't done-but nervous Britons were willing to admit that, if it ever is, Hore-Belisha is the sort...