Word: ultimatum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Minister-President's ultimatum the Nazi press added its thunder: "The mere publication of this decree should galvanize the last slackers in the agrarian production battle...
...walls, is accessible only by means of a drawbridge to an adjacent building. Within it are live cattle, fresh wells, well-stocked larders. At week's end, armed monks patrolled the walls while police, dispatched by the Governor of Assiut at the Patriarch's request, pondered the ultimatum that any attempt to storm the monastery would be met with deluges of boiling water...
...whose side the strike is a great thorn. On Inauguration Day the conference commenced. Next day John L. Lewis aborted it with a press statement which, even for him, touched a new high in boldness. To the President of the U. S., Leader Lewis issued the following public ultimatum: "We have advised the Administration through the Secretary of Labor and the Governor of Michigan that for six months the economic royalists represented by General Motors, the Du Fonts, Sloan and others contributed their money and used their energy to drive the President of the United States out of Washington...
...organize the historically unorganized automobile industry had been evident for weeks, as its affiliated United Automobile Workers and Federation of Flat Glass Workers unions harassed the industry's partsmaking flanks (TIME, Nov. 30 et seq.}. Last fortnight Leader Lewis, demanding collective bargaining, thundered an "ultimatum" at General Motors. But, occupied as he was with a national steel organizing campaign, an internecine fight with leaders of the American Federation of Labor and the possibility of having to lead his United Mine Workers in a strike against the nation's soft coal operators, few observers believed that he would...
...frontal attack on the automobile industry, whose parts-making supply bases the United Automobile Workers and Federation of Flat Glass Workers continued last week to harry (TIME, Dec. 21 et ante}. To great General Motors Corp., world's biggest automobile manufacturers' Leader Lewis delivered an "ultimatum" demanding U. A. W. recognition and collective bargaining, on threat of strike...