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Newspapers rallied to the commissioner, forgave him his transgression for being overtired, and left hapless Bob Wagner with his ultimatum running out. At the last minute, former Senator Herbert H. Lehman, a fellow Democrat and patriarch of New York Jewry, offered a solution. He praised Commissioner Kennedy as a man of integrity, courage and high character. The whole controversy, he said, had been exaggerated out of all reason. Well, said "I'm-the-Mayor" Wagner after a conference, it's up to the Board of Rabbis: "They asked for an apology." And everybody in the city understood that...
...Egypt, and we secured only part of the funds requested. I could not do it. How in the world can Mr. Shepley go down to the State Department and within a few days get $100,000 for this purpose?" To get an answer to that question, Fulbright sent an ultimatum to Secretary of State Christian Herter, demanding a full explanation of the reversal...
...could keep up with Lumumba, and, apparently, nothing could get him down. When both houses of Congo's Parliament refused to ratify his hasty ultimatum to the U.N. and his arbitrary breakoff of relations with Belgium, Lumumba's only reaction was to say he could not consult Parliament because its members were plotting against his life. He specifically named as chief assassins moderate Senate Speaker Joseph Ileo and two of his old political rivals, Jean Bolikango and Albert Kalonji...
meeting, delivered an ultimatum. Some of them had interests in Chrysler suppliers, he said, and the practice had been going on for some time. His ultimatum: everyone must get rid of his interests...
Profitless Prosperity. One of the chief offenders was Newberg, whom Colbert had groomed to succeed himself. Angry at the reports that Newberg had disregarded the ultimatum, Colbert put to work Chrysler's lawyers and auditors to make sure. When the evidence showed that Newberg was profiting from Chrysler's purchases from smaller suppliers, Colbert got the board of directors to fire him. The investigation has not stopped with Newberg, Colbert admitted last week. It could well be that Newberg is just the first and biggest offender to get caught...