Word: ultimatums
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...Kong and Shanghai Banking Corp., began to apply gentlemanly persuasion to straighten Hutchison out. In August the bank agreed to pump $30 million into the company in return for 150 million newly created shares of its stock-on condition that Clague give way to a bank-picked successor. That ultimatum prompted Clague to make a last-ditch effort to raise capital from European banks. He failed...
Whatever his role, Hirohito ultimately recognized the futility of the war, even before the atomic bombs dropped in 1945. After the nuclear ultimatum, he counseled his people to "bear the unbearable" (surrender, that is). At the Allies' request, he publicly disowned the official myth that he was the divine descendant of the sun goddess Amaterasu, and he did not murmur when the conquerors stripped him of his $100 million fortune. When his people struggled against starvation early in the Occupation, he gave away American canned goods to old retainers and subsisted on brown rice and sweet potatoes...
With that ultimatum Harvard swung into action, proposing that the library corporation use three acres of the Business School land in Allston for a museum site. The offer was doomed from the start. Although residents of the community behind the MBTA yard site supported the Allston plan, residents of the Riverside community of Cambridge, immediately across the river from the Allston site, rejected it. The plan failed to meet Smith's requirements...
...Belgian road hub of Bastogne when the Nazis launched a desperate counteroffensive in the icy whiter of 1944. McAuliffe's 10,000 men were surrounded by Panzers, outnumbered 4 to 1, and running short of food, medicine and ammunition when a German officer arrived with the surrender ultimatum that brought the U.S. general's famous, quickly scrawled reply: "To the German Commander-Nuts!" The "Screaming Eagles" hung on for five bloody days until the siege was broken by armor under General George S. Patton, who pinned the Distinguished Service Cross on McAuliffe...
...arms requests from the Rabin government-a not so subtle pressure on Jerusalem to yield. Ford called Dinitz to the White House to discuss the Egyptian proposals on the Sinai. In Israel, there were exaggerated stories that the President had given the ambassador a "brutal" ultimatum to make concessions or risk losing U.S. support. Ford denied that he had given Dinitz any ultimatum but insisted that a Sinai deadlock was "an open invitation to war." Unless the deadlock ends, Ford indicated, the U.S. may be forced to agree to a Geneva conference, which it does not really want under such...