Word: ultimatum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Washington, which has always thought of itself as a Southern city, was sharply reminded last week that it is also the nation's capital. Actors' Equity Association, the actors' union, served the proprietor of the National Theater (Washington's one & only "legit" playhouse) with an ultimatum: the theater's ban on selling seats to Negroes must be lifted by June 1948-or Equity will ban all its actors from playing there...
...Ultimatum. In Bergenfield, N.J., a movie-house manager stopped the show, gave the audience an ultimatum: the show would not continue until all the bubble-gum poppers had turned in their...
...adamant French stand, confronting the Council with a virtual take-it-or-leave-it ultimatum, created what appears to be the worse split yet developed here among the western powers...
...peddle them. Cuba's new Interior Minister Alfredo Pequeno got the point. He called in burly Benito Herrera, chief of the secret police, and told him to go get Lucky. At week's end Lucky Luciano, no war hero at all, was locked up and had an ultimatum: go back to Italy...
...Mexico test occurred as the Big Three conferred at Potsdam. An ultimatum, which did not, however, hint at the bomb, was delivered. Japan's premier, Suzuki, replied haughtily that it was "unworthy of public notice...