Word: protest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...know the true facts of the case other than those you report: plenty of people will protest them. But I do know that there is such a thing as professional jealousy in our various Executive Departments...
...behalf of numberless admirers and friends of Senator Long and as the father of James O'Connor Jr., I protest against the use of a word which today carries a sinister significance. Neither James O'Connor Jr., nor any of the many friends and champions and advocates of Huey P. Long's policies were ever regarded by him as "henchmen." He looked upon them as devoted friends who were doing their utmost to aid him in his struggle to prevent the accumulation of great wealth in the hands of a relatively few and for its redistribution among the masses...
...interesting comparison with the German situation is found in the Olympic trials for the Los Angeles games when negroes were net permitted to participate in the semi-finals which were held in the South and the only colored entries qualified in Northern trials. There was no protest from any foreign delegation at that time, however...
...including those of Greece, Il Duce, without asking Greek permission as Britons do, suddenly had three Italian war boats drop anchor in three major Greek ports. Local officials frantically wired Athens and the statesmen and militarists of Greece dropped their own feuds to unite in a loud squawk of protest...
...decision which I have been resisting for two years or more: that is, to withdraw from the Methodist Church. . . . I happen to be an officer of a public utility holding company and consequently I am an 'untouchable' and probably ought not raise my voice in protest, but I have been doing it and I am going to do so increasingly. . . . The Methodist Church . . . has meant much to me. . . . However, I can no longer continue to support in my small way, either financially or spiritually, a course with which I so thoroughly disagree...