Word: protest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tried to see, more than one aspect of the War. We entered on the Allies side, because, Mr. Millis concludes, we never heard more than one side represented, from the first few weeks. Hearst's policy of friendship towards Germany, while it may have stiffened a note of protest to the British blockade, was impotent in the face of the Allied propaganda machine, incredibly more subtle than the German...
Since the Congress opened, alert U. S. Ambassador William Christian Bullitt has several times given Moscow correspondents reason to cable that he was about to make vigorous protest on orders from Washington. Last week, as the World's crack revolutionists prepared to return to their homelands, the Moscow Congress made curious overtures. Its Keynote Spokesman, fiery George Dimitroff, implied in an adroit speech that the Communist Party may support Franklin Roosevelt in the next election because his defeat might enable forces now opposing U. S. Communism to give it a body blow...
There was also sudden talk in Moscow last week of establishing nondenominational U. S. Protestant churches in Russia. This, Bolshevik leaders seemed to feel, would help President Roosevelt shush devout U. S. critics of his failure to protest up to last week the broken Soviet pledge. Correspondents were told that all U. S. Protestants have to do is supply the money and they can have a church in Moscow...
...conservative at heart, began to wonder whether the Rhode Island defeat could be used to swing Franklin Roosevelt on a rightward course. Said Senator Gerry of Rhode Island: "I believe this evidences a distinct trend against some of the Roosevelt policies, especially the processing tax. ... It was not a protest against the local organization." Said Senator Walsh of Massachusetts: "The only explanation that occurs to me is that certain economic policies . . . had created a sentiment against the Administration, but I did not think it had reached such proportions. I feel sure the Administration will be able to adjust its policies...
...Brest Naval Arsenal, angrily announced: "We accuse extremists, Communists, of provoking this trouble! We accuse especially the professional agitator Balliere!" After going to work again, the 6,000 proletarians at Brest Arsenal showed where they stood by abruptly stopping work for an hour in a "folded arms protest" against the 10% wage cut decreed for state employees by budget-balancing Premier Pierre Laval (TIME, July...