Word: ultimatumed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...assembly, as China asked. Japan's other diplomatic front: since the Great Powers have rejected Japan's plan to neutralize the five chief Chinese cities and virtually divide China into "spheres of influence" each dominated by a Great Power last week Tokyo presented in effect an ultimatum to the World...
...facing ruin, were almost unanimous in demanding Reparations cancellation at any cost. The U. S., Correspondent Knickerbocker found, has too great a stake in the Reich to be able to afford isolation. Interviews with Adolf Hitler and the Nazis' Presidential candidate, General Franz von Epp, brought forth an ultimatum to the U. S.: If France prepares to invade Germany, the U. S. will be expected to stop her; otherwise Germany will pay no private debts. Knickerbocker conclusions...
...Admiral, in the unmistakable language of an ultimatum, had issued his demands to Shanghai's Mayor Wu. Frantic, the Mayor and the tycoons of the city had agreed to accept them all-not only to make reparation for the tousling of five Japanese monks who had paraded through Shanghai streets beating drums; but also to abolish the anti-Japanese societies which promote the boycott on Japanese goods (TIME...
...flung blazing newspapers into the weaving room. Other Japanese attacked policemen attempting to summon fire engines. When the towels were finally extinguished 1,000 Japanese held a mass meeting in the Japan Club, and Rear Admiral Koichi Shiosawa, commander of the Japanese fleet anchored off Shanghai, issued an ultimatum: all anti-Japanese organizations in the foreign settlement as well as in the native cities must be suppressed "on pain of drastic naval action...
Denver's zoo is not far from Capitol Hill, where solid Denver citizens have their homes. Such citizens Zoo Superintendent Clyde Hill would not wish to offend. But last week he sent them an ultimatum. A pack of dogs was prowling nightly through the zoo grounds, frightening the animals. One night they had killed a deer. Superintendent Hill had seen two police dogs, two bird dogs, one collie. All looked like nice, well bred dogs. He fired blank cartridges to frighten them away, but they returned. Unless Capitol Hill residents chained their dogs, said Superintendent Hill...