Word: protest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Refusing to see newshawks, Prisoner MacCracken rested on a prepared statement which vigorously protested his innocence, laid full responsibility for permitting destruction of the papers on his partner, Frederic P. Lee. In the Senate, Vermont's Republican Warren Robinson Austin almost started a party fight by taking up MacCracken's protest. In the House, Texas' voluble William Doddridge McFarlane introduced a resolution demanding that Prisoner MacCracken either resign from the Government's National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics or be impeached...
...petition was drawn up by George F. Stubbs, Jr., '38. It reads: "We the undersigned, members of the Class of 1938 of Harvard College, do hereby protest against the manner and form in which the elections for class officers are being carried out and petition that the elections be reheld in a more democratic manner, that all candidates be proposed by petitions signed by at least 100 members of the class of 1938; and that each candidate shall be a candidate for a definite office and a candidate for only one office...
...state universities faculty members must be perpetually wary of any chance "Un-American" statement. Such a situation inevitably atrophies their mental life. When the attack of academic reactionaries is directed towards the left, communistic organizations justifiably protest. In an un-regimented state, however, similar tolerance must also be exhibited towards the right. The privately-endowed university, free from direct obligations towards the existing--or any other--form of government, should preserve the tradition of freedom by maintaining academic fitness as the sole criterion in making its appointments...
Humiliated by these elections, the A. F. of L. roared its protest when President Roosevelt renewed the Automobile Code, extending it to the legal date of NRA's expiration, June 16. The President did not consult the A. F. of L., did not stipulate a 30-hr. week, did not abolish the hated merit clause. But what galled the Federation most was that, in renewing the Code, the President provided that the Wolman Board should continue to be binding on the industry...
...same time, Charles L. Whipple '35, executive secretary of the Harvard chapter, will discuss the general aims of the NSL with special reference to their recent protest at the appointment of Carrado Gint, as lecturer on Sociology...