Word: ultimatums
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...Ultimatum. The plan was quite simple. The U.N. would give the Reds what they wanted-a tentative cease-fire line based on the present battlefront. If, within 30 days of Communist acceptance of this proposal, the remaining items on the truce agenda could be negotiated and settled, the tentative line would become a permanent line, with a 2½mile buffer zone astride it, and the armistice would be signed. The plan was no ultimatum. If no agreement should be reached in 30 days, a new tentative line would be drawn on the basis of the battlefront then existing...
...president's feud with the college fraternities began four years ago when he handed them a three-point ultimatum. At that time he ordered them to take in a greater percentage of the total student body, abolish all racial and religious discriminatory clauses from their charters, and raise their scholastic averages...
Since the ultimatum to the Veterans' Administration did not specify what expenditures to curb, the V.A. heedlessly took the quickest and easiest action. This has led to no economy but to plenty of headaches. The V.A. functions to benefit veterans with an inexpensive education. Its staff is supposedly competent to handle all veterans' problems and it certainly could avoid such a costly internal blunder...
...seven-year, $65,000-a-year job. Frick's biggest problem as National League president came in 1947 when he got wind of a projected players' strike against the admission of Negro Jackie Robinson into the league. Frick confronted the players with an ultimatum; "If you do this, you are through, and I don't care if it wrecks the league for ten years. You cannot do this because this is America...
General MacArthur's brand new Japan has become the white hope of democracy in the Far East, and there have been some extraordinary efforts to keep it pure. One such is an ultimatum presented by a group of Republican and Southern Democratic congressmen to the State Department demanding that Japan recognize Chiang-kai-Shek as China's true leader...