Word: ultimatum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...throbbing reality of it to listeners. NBC, CBS, MBS constantly carried crisis news in spite of a magnetic storm which marred short-wave reception for three days and a hurricane which broke power and communication lines, flooded transmitters. The announcement of the Czech reply to the Chamberlain-Daladier ultimatum was read to CBS listeners by Maurice Hindus eleven minutes before any other U. S. agency got the news. NBC and CBS stayed on the air all night keeping U. S. listeners in touch with Europe...
...Liberal program, in person or by proxy, Franklin Roosevelt must control that convention or found a third party and with it carry the country. After a Purge that did not purge, these tasks looked more formidable than before. Senator George sounded almost as though he were issuing an ultimatum to Franklin Roosevelt when he gently said last week: "All great Democrats bow to the will of the people." Lacking only the outcome of the Purge v. John J. O'Connor of New York (this week), the one anti-Roosevelt Representative dignified with a place on the list, the whole...
...against about 10% then and volume of sales has increased some eight times, making foreign holdings and trading less relatively important. Last week the SEC and the Exchange had their heads together on methods of cushioning the inevitable shock that war liquidation would bring. Day after the Sudeten ultimatum to Czechoslovakia, volume rocketed to 2,800,000 shares and prices broke to new lows since June (132 on the Dow-Jones Industrial scale...
...Boggs of Kanotex Refining Co. in Arkansas City, Kans. notified the producers who supply his refinery with crude that henceforth he would pay them 25? less. Kanotex Refining is an obscure factor in the industry; without the present psychological state of crude oil producers, Mr. Boggs's ultimatum would have attracted no attention. But oil is the only important U. S. business which in the last year has withstood Depression, and producers felt it was too good to last. More important still-despite increasing demand, proration figures have unquestionably been too high. The Petroleum Institute in April stated that...
After receiving full powers, Premier Daladier at once convened the "Inner Cabinet," which he announced fortnight ago would be the G. H. Q. of his "Cabinet of Defense." Few hours afterward a French Cabinet, for the first time, had issued an ultimatum to Labor that a "humane evacuation" of the sit-down strikers by this week at the latest was desired. This evacuation would be achieved "for the common good," by whatever methods might prove necessary, M. Pierre Jacomet was appointed the Cabinet's special strike arbiter, and within 24 hours 25,000 sit-downers in Government aviation factories...