Word: ultimatum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this Aberhart mummery so vexed the Canadian Manufacturers' Association that its Alberta branch announced that it flatly refused to accept a single prosperity certificate. Local manufacturers, wholesalers and large retailers loudly protested, but issued no such ultimatum. Small shopkeepers, many of them pious adherents of the Premier's Prophetic Bible Institute, declared they were ready to take as many velocity dollars as they could without going insolvent "to give the plan a chance." Premier Aberhart and Cabinet decided to accept part of their salaries in prosperity certificates. First Alberta community approached by the Premier to put his scheme...
...body they contemptuously dismissed the demand by declaring it "inconceivable that the Executive Council would commit any act to split the labor forces of America in the midst of the campaign in the iron and steel indus try and in the face of the arrogant ultimatum issued to the entire labor movement by the American Iron and Steel Institute." R, L P. At week's end the steel campaigners repaired for inspiration to the scene of the first great battle between U. S. steelmasters and U. S. steelmakers...
Taking over his new duties last week, Superintendent Johnson got a shiny official Cadillac, an office filled with roses and snapdragons, a stern ultimatum from potent North Central Association of Colleges & Secondary Schools. Unless, the Association intimated, Chicago took prompt steps to enlarge its high-school teaching staff, North Central would remove understaffed Chicago schools from its accredited list, make their graduates take examinations to enter the Association's member colleges...
...eight specific instances of it between Dec. 30, and mid-March. The Suez Canal Co. reported that over 250 tons of Italian poison gas had passed the canal in the last four months. Italy must either agree to an immediate armistice or face an oil embargo, was the Eden ultimatum...
...Italian troops during the period of negotiation; 2) cessation of all German military activities in the Rhineland; 3) adjudication by the World Court of the German charge that the Franco-Soviet mutual assistance treaty violates the Locarno Pact; 4) an international conference for peace. France called these proposals an ultimatum. Britain described them as merely proposals. Ambassador Ribbentrop delivered Hitler's rejection of them only to Britain's Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden. If Hitler could produce counterproposals that seemed reasonable to Britain, unreasonable to France, he would succeed...