Word: protest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Benito Mussolini, Barletta's boss, demanded last week Barletta's release, reimbursement for all losses as a result of his imprisonment and a $200,000 indemnity. The U. S. owners of Dominican Tobacco Co. were scuttling about Washington prodding the State Department to protest. Last week some Washington observers thought the State Department might use the Barletta incident to demonstrate President Roosevelt's "good neighbor" concept of the 112-year-old Monroe Doctrine - i.e., might not only refuse all requests to crack down on Trujillo but permit Mussolini to crack down himself, if he can. Thus...
...last two innings of the April game were played under protest by Princeton. The controversy resulted from the interpretation of a ground rule by the umpire when the catcher's throw in an attempt to catch a runner off first base went into an outfield overflow crowd...
Tainted by Princeton's formal protest of the umpires' decision on a ground rule, the Varsity gained a 6-4 victory over the Tigers Saturday at Soldiers Field. This action, unprecedented in the history of the Eastern intercollegiate Baseball League, was occasioned by the officials' ruling that Adzigian's wild throw in the eighth had gone into the crowd, and that the two Princeton men who had scored were allowed only two bases...
Princeton's protest was apparently based on the sixth inning decision that catcher Reichel's wild attempt to catch Dick Maguire off first allowed the three Crimson runners to score, while the verdiot was rendered after Coach Fred Mitchell's definition of the ground rule to the officials, and the Tigers' two runs from the overthrow were disallowed. Princeton played the balance of the game under protest. The league officials will return their report within ten days, after the protest and Harvard's plea have been filed...
Soon the executioners entered. Yurovsky announced the sentence of death, cut short the Tsar's agonized protest with a bullet from his revolver. The Cheka gunmen opened fire. Last to fall was the parlormaid, who shielded herself with the jewel-packed pillow, ran screaming back & forth. She was killed with bayonets. When they examined the bodies they found that the Grand Duchess Anastasia had merely fainted. When she had been shot, the executioners wrapped the bodies in cloth, loaded them on a truck and carried them ten miles to an abandoned mine, where they were dismembered, burnt on gasoline...