Word: ultimatums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ultimatum. In Penang, Straits Settlements, bookmakers vengefully threatened to go on strike unless the police quit arresting them...
...seaman's swab. Last week, when the United States Lines' S.S. America docked in New York with a sizzling labor dispute aboard, company officials prepared for the worst. The union's delegate, a wiry, intense ship's electrician named Walter Avellar, had served an ultimatum: either the company fired Chief Crew Steward W. S. McDonald and reinstated two seamen, or the ship would not sail. Roared grim-jawed, grim-tempered Commodore Harry Manning: "They can tie this ship up until hell freezes over, as far as I am concerned. The time has come to find...
...authorized by this union to say a vessel will not sail." He added sternly: "We will settle this beef in the usual manner -through the grievance machinery." The crew backed him up. At a meeting on board the ship they voted overwhelmingly to disown Avellar's ultimatum...
Even middle-roading Assemblymen thought this was too strong. The government offered a compromise figure of 125 billion. M. Schuman, in effect, issued an ultimatum: take it or leave it. He forced a vote of confidence on the issue. M. Schuman won; his bill was passed. On each of five separate amendments, the Assembly voted for the Premier. His majority was not large, but it never fell below 33 votes...
...friend, author John Kieran, and on a strict diet of honey and rice, Harlow showed signs of improvement between the 1946 and 1947 football seasons; but the strain of tutoring the Crimson last fall set Harlow's health back farther than ever and let to Dr. Kempner's ultimatum...