Word: ultimatumed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...workman to sign a union card than to pay his initiation fee. Nobody, not even Mr. Tighe, can calculate how many members his union can effectively call off the job. Nevertheless, at its annual meeting in Pittsburgh last month Amalgamated voted to strike. Fortnight ago Leader Tighe served an ultimatum on the steel industry: union recognition or a general strike on June...
Merry-Go-Round: The drive to oust Harry Woodring as Assistant Secretary of War is becoming more intense. Spearhead of the drive is the general staff and its chief, General Douglas A. MacArthur. General Staff officers have laid down almost an ultimatum that Harry Woodring goes out. General: Meaning . . . that plaintiff was guilty of disloyalty and mutinous conduct, one of the most serious offenses in the Articles...
Blunt, hard-headed Walter Runciman. president of Britain's Board of Trade, called in Japan's Ambassador Tsuneo Matsudaira one day last week and gave him a strange ultimatum: Either the Japanese Government agree to divide the world's markets for cotton and silk cloth equably with Britain, or Britain would keep Japanese cloth out of Britain and its colonies by means of import quotas based on what Japan sold during the 1927-31 period. Ambassador Matsudaira passed the ultimatum on to his Government which presently sent back word that Japan wanted to think it over...
...pieces of silver.' Let it stand 'Betray the union of his youth,' " and then resumed the even tenor of his oratory. Two days later he cracked another head. Forney Johnston, a slender, sharp-nosed Southerner, representative of the Alabama coal operators, came and delivered an ultimatum to NRA. Said he: "The hours and wages amendments to the bituminous code combine the law of the jungle with the worst features of a military despotism. . . . The Alabama coal operators are definitely determined not to conform to any further
France's veterans, realizing the emergency, were considerably more tractable than the American Legion. They accepted the 3% pension cut, but at the same time the National Council of the Confederation of War Veterans served an ultimatum on the Government: The cut must be for one year only, beginning July 1. Before that time the Government must take definite action "toward repression of scandals, revision of the financial markets, repression of fiscal frauds, restoration and reorganization of credit, reorganization of the railways and reform of the State. . . . Otherwise the veterans will impose their own program of national renovation...