Word: ultimatums
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...Royalist Constantine Tsaldaris, who has strong dictatorial leanings, had been entrusted by King Paul to form a new Cabinet (TIME, Sept. 1). Liberal Leader Themistocles Sophoulis refused to serve under him, so Tsaldaris said he would go it alone. Henderson put his foot down, delivered what amounted to an ultimatum. Tsaldaris then stepped down to the job of Vice Premier. Sophoulis became the head of the new Cabinet. The most unsavory of the Royalists were...
...confessed that there was another reason for putting an end to his 14-year-old newspaper. "To a large extent," he added bitterly, "we are quitting because we could no longer endure the conditions and demands imposed on us by the International Typographical Union. . . . They handed us an ultimatum which is no longer, by their express stipulation, to be known as a contract, but will henceforward be known as 'Conditions of Employment' (TIME, Sept...
Half an hour later, the last supply boat headed for the French shore, carrying six sick refugees-the Jews' reply to the British ultimatum. The Runnymede Park put to sea, with its passengers grasping the grill of their caged-in deck and singing defiantly in Hebrew. The Ocean Vigour and Empire Rival followed...
...weeks ago raucous Colonel J. Monroe Johnson, ODT director, issued an ultimatum: rail shipments of coal would be embargoed unless something was done about the laggard cars within twelve hours. Canadian bigwigs hurried to Washington, agreed to cut the adverse balance to 8,000 cars of all types, even if it meant returning them empty...
...Manhattan, an apartment-house tenant last week was handed an ultimatum from his landlord. He could either buy his apartment for $10,000 or he would have to move out to make room for someone who would. When the tenant took his troubles to the Office of Rent Control, he found-along with hundreds of others-that the new rent-control law had a loophole. And landlords, chafing under rent ceilings, had found it. They could sell their apartments to tenants-or outside buyers-as "cooperatives," without so much as a by-your-leave from...