Word: ultimatumed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...adherents to Justice Brandeis. In his two-room Washington office they asked him to say upon what terms he and his followers would return to Zionist activity. Justice Brandeis always writes out his important business-official or personal-in longhand. After two months pondering and writing he sent his ultimatum to the Lipsky group. He and his financial stalwarts would resume work only if and when every Lipsky man resigned from office in the Zionist Organization of America. The organization must also suspend its Democratic constitution, consent for a period to an administration oligarchy of nine men whom Justice Brandeis...
Empire Day. Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden's father in law is Mayor Richard Annakin of Harrogate, famed "British spa.'' Both men are rugged pacifists. Last week Mayor Annakin cowed his City Council with an ultimatum. If they counted on him to take part in Harrogate's celebration of Empire Day (May 24), he said, they must strike the singing of ''Rule Britannia" off the program...
...Malabar. The nation was unquestionably roused to such a pitch of fervor that, at one word from "Recpolman" Gandhi, the most terrible grapple and insurrection of modern times would have begun. George V knows how many of his subjects' lives Mr. Gandhi saved by dramatically withdrawing the seven-day ultimatum he had sent to the Viceroy, Lord Reading, demanding independence for India within that time. Mr. Gandhi chose to rebuke Indians for what he called their folly and breakdown of discipline, canceled his whole movement, became temporarily unpopular and, as Baron Lloyd says: "Then we put him in jail...
...authorities in Lehman Hall refused yesterday to make any official comment upon the story circulated in the Boston papers that twenty cleaning women had been discharged from Widener Library in response to an ultimatum issued by the State Minimum Wage Board. Aside from tacitly confirming these reports, the officials involved made no reply to the storm of protest already aroused over the fact that the University was apparently unwilling to raise the wages of these workers two and one half cents an hour...
...weeks ago M. Pierre Etienne Flandin, Minister of Commerce, sent an ultimatum in the direction of the U. S. Senate: "If others build tariff walls, France will build tariff walls!" (TIME, Dec. 2). M. Flandin's wall, scheduled to go before the Chamber of Deputies this month, provides: 1) Increased duties on assembly parts ranging from 30% to 200%; 2) The present ad valorem duty of 45% on complete cars raised to 90%, practically a prohibitive duty...