Word: ultimatums
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Poujade sped around France, talking, always talking. "In 1945 we liberated France," he shouted. "Now we are going to liberate the French." He demanded cessation of tax inspections and forgiveness of tax violators, sent an ultimatum to Premier Edgar Faure himself. While Poujade watched scornfully from the visitors' gallery, the Premier and Deputies of France caved in, gave Poujade not all but most of his demands. When Poujade took off his coat preparatory to donning a sweater and leaving, the Assembly president was so nervous that he pushed the riot-call button, which summons the Republican Guard...
...General Anthony Clement McAuliffe, 57, retiring commander in chief of the U.S. Army in Europe, onetime (1949-51) commander of the Army Chemical Corps, famed for answering a Nazi surrender ultimatum at Bastogne with "Nuts," was recruited by American Cyanamid Co. as chief of its new Engineering & Construction Division and president of its engineering subsidiary, the Chemical Construction Corp...
...Russia about a year and a half. Sam Spewack of the New York World, two others and myself smuggled out news through the American Relief diplomatic pouch. We were caught when the Soviets broke the treaty and opened the mailbags. At this time Colonel McCormick sent his famous "ultimatum" to the Soviet government; addressed to Foreign Affairs Minister Chicherin, it read...
...Null & Void." Interposition was put to its ultimate test when General Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard's ultimatum touched off the bombardment of Sumter...
Quebec's highhanded Premier Maurice Le Noblet Duplessis served an ultimatum on the pulp and paper companies in his province: either cut back newsprint prices for the Quebec press by Jan. 10 or face government controls. Last week, when the deadline passed, Duplessis made public a bill designed to harness Quebec's billion-dollar pulp and paper industry with some of the toughest controls ever imposed on Canadian business in peacetime...