Word: protest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under NRA, shopkeepers were not supposed to sell goods at less than cost. The moment the Blue Eagle was struck down, some Los Angeles grocers began offering "loss leaders" at 25% or more below cost. Their more conservative competitors called protest meetings, loudly thumped for a continuance of "fair practices." The cut-raters stood their ground and all grocery prices began...
Theatres of protest arose in Manhattan as early as 1927, earliest organizations being the New Playwrights Theatre, the Workers Laboratory (recently rechristened the Theatre of Action), the Artef Players, Theatre Collective, the German Prolit-Buehne. This was the nucleus of the New Theatre League, which in 1932 began publishing a monthly magazine now supported by 15,000 readers. Editor Herbert Kline explained that the League aimed to serve "the needs of working-class audiences for plays unlike the theatrical marshmallows served up on Broadway which deal with problems quite as remote from the workers' lives as peculiar Park Avenue...
...writing "letters to the editor," but the whole tone of the review of Joseph Auslander's latest book of poems, No Traveller Returns, on p. 80 of your May 27 issue, strikes me as so sneering and uncritical in the best sense, that I feel I must protest. After all, I have been following American poetry for years, and should know just a little of what I am talking about. In the first place, to single out any one poet to whom to apply the title "Poetaster," is letting prejudice override fairness entirely. In the second place, to apply...
...Association acts only on specific complaint, usually one of dismissal without just cause or notice. Last winter it deplored the farce which Huey Long had made of academic freedom in his Louisiana State University, but held its fire because no facultyman had yet dared raise his voice in protest. When a complaint seems worthy of action, Committee A asks A. A. U. P. chapters in neighboring universities to nominate an investigating committee. The committee visits the complainant's campus, hears both sides firsthand. Sometimes it finds that a sluggard or incompetent has got his just deserts. Sometimes...
Fortnight ago 7,000 irate Miamians assembled in a mass meeting to protest Governor Sholtz's ousting of State's Attorney N. Vernon Hawthorne, wired President Roosevelt that Sholtz was an "unworthy official, having lost the respect of the people." To Governor Sholtz was sent a stinging, 300-word rebuke: "The highest office . . . was not handed you to use for . . . vindictive purposes or to carry out secret . . . programs." Speakers-mostly clubwomen and attorneys-loudly whanged their Governor. When ousted Attorney Hawthorne was introduced as "the next Governor of Florida," the crowd yelled lustily...