Word: protest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...voice throbbing with righteous indignation; Representative Brewster bluntly declared that Presidential Agent Thomas G. Corcoran had approached him just before the teller vote, threatened to stop construction on Passamaquoddy Dam unless he voted for the "death sentence." Inference was that his prompt vote against it had been a righteous protest against such a flagrantly unrighteous threat...
...smart to challenge Stalin openly, she hobbled out to the All Union Congress of Young Communist Women and slipped in her covert protest. "The mother instinct is noble, and we consider it a great force, but we do not want our women to devote their lives to rearing children only!" cried Widow Lenin, herself childless and a typical Old Bolshevik, with scorn for the bourgeois virtues. "We do not want child bearing or any other aspect of married life to separate our women from public work...
...workers thrown on Relief. The industry has always outdone itself in keeping its workers employed in slack times for fear of losing what few skilled lace-makers there are in the U. S. And wearing gay lace boutonnieres, 500 of them appeared in Washington to join their employers in protest. Spokesman for lace employees, however, was not a labor leader: but Executive Director Clement J. Driscoll of the American Lace Manufacturers Association. Said...
...Contra Costa deputies plumed themselves for several days on the astuteness of their "robot ghost" idea until the Mexican Consul lodged a strong protest against such third degree methods...
With the militarists riding high, Poland's Socialist Party appealed to all workers to stage a 24-hour general strike in protest against the new Constitution's electoral provisos which stifle Democracy. Contemptuous of the proletariat, Army bigwigs gossiped in their cafes chiefly about who is going to be elected Poland's next President. Today the candidate of the "Colonel's Clique" to succeed Scientist Moscicki as President is able, energetic, shrewd General Kazimierz Sosnkowski, close crony of Inspector General Edward Rydz-Smigly who was expected to try to repeat Marshal Pilsudski's feat...