Word: ultimatums
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...decision was originally due yesterday morning at 10 o'clock when John C. Haggott '35, president of the Dramatic Club submitted the statements of the Advisory Board to Matthew Luce, Regent, who was to deliver the ultimatum of the University on the subject of the play. Later in the day, President Conant requested the five Faculty members to read over the play and send in their votes to Luce...
Died. Francis William Reitz, 89, onetime state Secretary of the South African Republic, author, in 1899, of an ultimatum to England which demanded its withdrawal from South African affairs and caused the Boer War; after long illness; in Capetown...
...last the trap has sprung on the Record's over-eager foot. For on Saturday, the voice of the law, in the form of Judge Nelson P. Brown, under whose guiding hand the case will be conducted, served an ultimatum on George Douglas, attorney for Mrs. Millen, and professor at the Suffolk Law School. Brown delivered the notice that anyone connected with the publication of the story--provided that after the ultimatum the Record's feet were not frostbitten--would be hailed into court for contempt. This judgment was rendered on the point that publication of such an article would...
...Following Nazi Theodor Habicht's "radio ultimatum'' giving Austria eight days to accept a Nazi Government, the Heimwehr men were being sent to the border where 10,000 men of the famed Austrian Legion were supposed to be ready to invade the country through the narrow valley at Braunau-Adolf Hitler's birthplace. U. S. correspondents investigated privately, could find no signs of unusual activity on either side of the border. From Berlin they learned that Handsome Adolf himself had suppressed news of the Habicht ultimatum in Germany and was thinking of pensioning or retiring...
...following, to use news items furnished by these companies. Like a father encouraging industry in his child, they declared that he must gather the items himself. They created the impression that he had been a very diligent parasite. When they saw that he was not materially hindered by their ultimatum, the moguls decided that even more drastic measures were in order. The next step was a decision to forbid all news broadcasts, but a compromise was finally offered to the radio companies so that they could broadcast morning news after 9 A. M. and evening news after...