Word: ultimatums
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the Conference got down to discussing 1935 last week, delegates dropped their back-slapping and began to hedge. On orders from Washington, soft-spoken U. S. Agricultural Attache Lloyd Steers of the Berlin Embassy voiced a friendly ultimatum: The U. S. cannot be expected to enter agreements for next year unless guarantees are given that pledges will be kept by all, not merely by the blighted. In Washington Mordecai Ezekiel, Secretary of Agriculture Wallace's lean-jawed economic adviser, declared: "We are going to have virtually no wheat to sell abroad next year...
Pretext for the seizure was an ultimatum, by President Mendieta to Cuban Telephone demanding that it re-employ certain strikers, including men who had committed acts of sabotage last spring. Loyal employes were subjected to weeks of terrorist intimidation. Several had their houses bombed. Last week they manifestoed: "We will not work with strikers who have tried to murder us." But President Mendieta, convinced that he was posing as the Friend of the Masses, pushed on with his ultimatum which was flatly rejected by U. S. General Manager Henry C. Hart of Cuban Telephone...
...ever-increasing numbers. Despite all his harsh words directed at the employers, Governor Olson directs all his harsh blows at the union and the strike." Governor Olson, who loves to proclaim his radicalism, found that martial law was gaining him no kudos with Labor. Finally he issued an ultimatum that unless the employers came to terms he would stop all truck movements. He kept his word. The strikers were delighted that troops should do their work of stopping truck movements. The employers bitterly demanded an injunction from the Federal District Court forbidding Governor Olson to continue martial law. The Court...
...spunky little Dictator had just hurled a drastic ultimatum at his Nazi enemies. He gave them five days in which to hand over all their explosives to his government. After that anyone caught with such a thing in Austria faced sentence of Death, by decree of Engelbert Dollfuss. Well he knew that this decree invited instant bomb attacks on himself and family...
...days before the ultimatum expired a shattering blast wrecked the important power station of Opponitz in Lower Austria, stopped every streetcar in Vienna for an hour until another power station could be hooked up to serve the capital. Minor bombs were popping all over Austria. To the railway station sped Chancellor, frau and children. Their train snorted toward Italy. At the frontier Chancellor Dollfuss, a pious believer in Providence, got off and prepared to go back to Vienna...