Word: ultimatumed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With France in the grip of acute Deflation, neither her bankers nor the Government want another spectacular suicide. Last week was a good time for a smart Frenchman like André Citroën to sell his life dearly. Having hurled his ultimatum he sat back and did not have to wait long...
...that came to only $2 a week. These Magyar miners and their families were starving. It had come to the point last week where their mouths watered at sight of the fat little pit ponies, sweating in the lamplight. Up from the mine they suddenly sent an ultimatum: either the owners raise their pay to $3.50 a week or they would have one good dinner on the ponies and then smash the ventilators. Death by suffocation they preferred to death by slow starvation. The owners replied: "Come out first; argue afterward." The men replied by returning all food and water...
...eyed malevolently the workmen who had come to replace the electric light pole on her front lawn, refused even to give her the old one for firewood. As soon as they had dug a clean new hole she plumped herself down, dangled her legs in the hole, delivered an ultimatum: "Now you can't put any pole in at all. It would block our view." Equipped with blankets, food and a blazing fire nearby, she sat stolidly on the edge of the hole all afternoon, all night. Every eight hours a new shift of workmen arrived...
...freshman for his laundry contract. The man was put out of the dormitory and Colonel Apted issued a warning to all concerned that the University's rule against canvassing the dormitories would be upheld. Neither the culprit nor Apted and anything to say about the affair but the ultimatum was issued. Solicitors beware...
...behind them, and the assertion that the President wanted workers to join the A. F. of L., union agents made great progress below the Potomac River. Next step was to do something for their new members and United Textile Workers' President, genial, well-dressed old Tom McMahon, issued an ultimatum that working hours might be cut from 40 to 30 hours but weekly wages must remain the same. General Johnson called him in, soothed him down with a compromise: 1) an investigation to see whether the industry could afford higher wages; 2) a place for a representative of his union...