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...wear that they had never joined, supported, or even believed in a subversive organization, faculty members would simply have to swear that they were not members of the Communist Party. But after eight months, 13.5% of the faculty had still not signed. Last week the Regents issued an ultimatum: any C.P. member, they said, automatically "has violated the terms on which he is employed . . . and shall be dismissed." For the 13.5% still holding out on the loyalty oath, whether hey were Communists or not, it had become a question of signing or resigning...
...room and the very cheapest food. I have nothing for clothing or emergency expenses." Other conductors agreed. Said one: "We have no other intention except to fill our stomachs. Why raise trouble if we could live on our income? . . ." The conservative South China Morning Post editorialized: ". . . their ultimatum has more economic basis than political: it will be agreed that some of them are underpaid...
Recalling that Teddy Roosevelt sent warships to Tangier in 1904 to rescue a U.S. citizen named Ion Perdicaris (who had been kidnaped by a Moroccan bandit named Raisuli), La Moore quoted T.R.'s famed ultimatum to the Bey of Tangier: "Perdicaris alive-or Raisuli dead."*Lashing out at the State Department's Office of Far Eastern Affairs for its "notorious . . . pro-Communist sympathies," Scripps-Howard in another blast cried: "Writing polite little notes has produced no results. Action is needed. A U.S. naval blockade of [Chinese] ports would bring the Communists to terms...
...boss, then Remón took command and moved fast. Police squads were deployed around Panama City, the newspapers were temporarily shut down, the telephone exchange was taken over and ordered to complete calls only to or from police headquarters. Then Chichi Remón sent his ultimatum to Chanis: unless the President resigned by 2 a.m. Sunday, police troops would attack the palace...
Three years later, March sent an emissary to Heineman in Manhattan with a new ultimatum: if he would not yield Barcelona, he could expect blows at CHADE, another SOFINA subsidiary in Spain. CHADE, though it owned no interests in Spain, used a Madrid office to collect the profits from the huge power interests it owned in Argentina (CADE). Heineman hastily moved CHADE to Luxembourg, where it transformed itself into SODEC (an identity it had used in a previous move to save its financial skin during Spain's civil...