Word: ultimatum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With but one serious objector, the University Faculty seems united in backing the ultimatum issued yesterday by Percy W. Bridgman '04, Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, banning totalitarian visitors from his laboratory...
...fact that devices easily applicable to the military were being developed in Bridgman's laboratory, seems to be the main factor influencing approbation of the dictum. Harold M. Westergaard, Gordon McKay Professor of Civil Engineering, himself a Lieutenant Commander, thought that the "ultimatum will have only good effects...
...ominous beginning the All-India Committee passed a resolution demanding that India be allowed to write her own Constitution and urged sending to Britain a six-month ultimatum as the proper period for a reply to India's "national demand." Failing a satisfactory answer in that time, the Party would be free to take matters into its own hands...
...There's been too much noise," was the ultimatum...
Basil Cochrane Newton, British Minister at Prague, who delivered the British ultimatum to President Eduard Benes, and John Troutbeck, first secretary of the British Legation at Prague, were made a Knight Commander and a Companion, respectively, of the Order of St. Michael and St. George. Sir Nevile Henderson, British Ambassador at Berlin, was made a Knight Grand Cross of St. Michael and St. George. Frank Ashton-Gwatkin, adviser to Viscount Runciman, the British "observer" in Czechoslovakia last summer, and William Strang, the Foreign Office Counselor who accompanied Mr. Chamberlain to Berchtesgaden, Godesberg and Munich, became Companions of the Order...