Word: ultimatums
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...with the mighty Chicago Tribune, and the Trib had neither reformed nor weakened (in fact, the same day the Sun fired 80, the Trib gave its white-collar staff of 1,589 a blanket 20% raise). Field had many millions left, but he was tired of spending them. His ultimatum: the Sun must shine by itself...
...Housing Committee, a civic house-finding group of which Hanratty was a member. Father John MacDonald, director of the Catholic Family Service, quit the committee, said he would stay out until Hanratty "throws the Communists out of his Veterans' League." Committee Chairman C. E. Pickering added his own ultimatum to Hanratty: clean house or quit. Hanratty said he would not force resignation of two Communist officials in his league, bristled: "If they want to get me out, they'll have to pick me up and toss...
...letdown" for the U.S. to notify Yugoslavia that if our "ultimatum" were not met we would "call upon the Security Council of the United Nations" [TIME, Sept...
...Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals thought otherwise. In an ultimatum to Hobbies, officers of the Royal Society deplored the sport. Said an R.S.P.C.A. inspector with finality: "Anyone who knows about boys will know that ... the mice will be prodded unmercifully to ginger them up." Britons tensed themselves for a finish fight. Then the iron curtain clanked down. Hobbies censored all news of mouseboat racing, refused to divulge even the inventor's name...
...formed the Veterans' Housing League, had been waiting for. They had failed in all the usual approaches to the Government to find adequate housing. The day after the CWACs cleared out, V.H.L. Leader Franklyn Edward Hanratty, a pint-sized pepper pot who flew 48 R.C.A.F. missions, handed an ultimatum to Ottawa's Mayor Stanley Lewis to do something about housing or else. The Mayor sat tight. At dusk eleven vets, their wives and 18 children rumbled out to Kildare Barracks in trucks. They unloaded beds, stoves, washing machines, etc., and set up house. By midnight, the children were...