Word: ultimatums
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Furious, Boss Theodore roared: "This action is an attempt by bankers to usurp the functions of Government! If persisted in. the Bank's ultimatum will mean that within a few days the Bank will refuse to pay checks drawn on public accounts in discharge of payments authorized by the Government...
...Holy Father knew that at this wedding there would be present those two accursed agitators for the Royalist cause in France, Editor Leon Daudet of L'Action Française and his doughty fellow editor, Charles Maurras. If they were present as guests, declared the Supreme Pontiff in his final ultimatum to Monseigneur le Due de Guise, then no Cardinal could possibly officiate...
Before the delegates met again Mayor Bose of Calcutta had also thrown up his sponge, and Mr. Gandhi had served upon the Congress a characteristic ultimatum. "My inner voice tells me," he said, "that if resolutions approving the course I have taken are not passed my country will need me no longer. I would then be convinced that the people of India had not responded to my call, and I would therefore starve myself to death...
Shrewd, Mr. Gandhi has never tried to move Christians by this Christlike form of ultimatum; but upon the Hindus and Moslems of India he has tried it more than once, and last week it again suc- ceeded. Abruptly the Congress Working Committee approved the whole Gandhi program, threw it to the delegates...
...subject is dismissed in three pages. At the same time he blandly admits that from 1885 to 1915 he was preparing for the coming struggle, visiting France's allies, preparing plans of attack and defense. His leave in Brittany was suddenly cut short one week before Germany delivered her ultimatum to Belgium. In the same way the political problems of the War itself did not concern him. Politicians he despised and distrusted. His entire occupation was the game (played in map-littered, steam-heated staff rooms) of turning living men in uniform into dead ones...