Word: ultimatum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cabinet, mostly composed of quick-trigger army officers, assembled with Dictator-Premier Ibanez and despatched a verbal ultimatum to the President. President Figueroa had no option but to issue a proclamation as follows: "Serious personal motives compel me to absent myself from my constitutional duties for a period of two months. During this time the Minister of the Interior (Premier Ibanez) will rep)ace me in the Presidency with the title of Vice President of the Republic, in accordance with Article 66 of the Political Constitution of the State...
...Austria desired not territory, but merely wished to keep what she had got. In sending an ultimatum to Serbia, she regarded herself as taking a purely defensive action against a people whose desire to cut off the southern provinces of the Hapsburg empire was not concealed. She would have been wiser, of course, had she taken more pains in the years preceding the war to conciliate her southern Slav subjects, and this was part of the plan of the murdered Archduke Franz Ferdinand...
Such a high court of culture as the U. S. Customs Bureau last week notified Rumanian Sculptor Constantin Brancusi that his statuary is not Art. This ultimatum followed long and learned discussions on the part of inspectors and it orders. Brancusi to pay a 40% import duty on about $10,000 worth of sculpture which he has disposed of in this country...
...Governor by J. A. O. Preus, Mr. Shipstead climbed into his Ford in 1922 and snorted on to Washington ahead of Frank B. Kellogg, who drove a Pierce Arrow in that Senate race. On arrival, Mr. Shipstead was put on the Foreign Relations Committee and straightway issued his ultimatum to the Senate: "You may think that because you have been good enough to give me this committee appointment, which I am proud to have, I will let up on being hostile and disagreeable and mean and nasty to the Republican and Democratic parties. I will not. I am a Farmer...
...final U. S. and Mexican notes both intimated politely that the governments concerned have said all there is to say on the subject. Secretary Kellogg's last note, in fact, read like the first half of an "ultimatum" but was not completed by the specific threats popularly associated with such a document. A period of vexful waiting loomed...