Word: protest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rude jolt. The North Atlantic Freight Conference, meeting in Manhattan, refused him membership on the ground that he had violated an agreement by buying Red Star Line and thus entering the general cargo field. With threats of a freight rate war on the horizon, bewildered Arnold Bernstein cabled a protest to the U. S. Shipping Board Bureau, felt sure the new "misunderstanding" would be straightened out, planned to travel to the U. S. next month...
Significance. "A complete vindication," beamed Steelmaster Weir, as he boarded a boat for a Bermuda holiday. Businessmen in general did not try to hide their smiles of satisfaction. In the midst of the general chorus of groans from Washington, no Administration voice of protest was heard, but NRA's lawyers announced at once that they would carry the Weirton fight to the Supreme Court...
Startled M. P.s were squeezed and jostled in their outer lobby by perhaps 400 unemployed who chorused "Down with the National Government!" until ejected by the 550 police. Meanwhile, in the House, Secretary for Agriculture Major Walter Elliot, pelted from the public gallery with green protest leaflets by the unemployed, exclaimed both in sorrow and in anger: "They do not grasp a single measure we are taking in their behalf...
...Jewish Congress who had as guest of honor obliging Professor Albert Einstein.* "The indignation of the American people," cried Mayor LaGuardia, "cannot be traded for commerce! And therefore, Dr. Einstein, our attitude is in keeping with the best traditions of our republic. The purpose of the boycott is a protest against an arrogant, bigoted, cruel Government...
Instantly 65-year-old Mahatma Gandhi reached for his pad of telegraph blanks, sent out a circular wire to leaders of the Indian National Congress, demanding a general mobilization of protest "since this child is unquestionably unfit to marry a man of such ripe years." Hindu reporters, most of whom have a sneaking sympathy for such bridegrooms, described the rejuvenated Hindu as "defiant," as "resolved to have his rights...