Word: protest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...write this letter in protest, and in query, not only for ourselves but for the many others we know who have similar interests. Where can we find a car built for byways and not for highways, sturdy, dependable, durable, and capable of reliable navigation under the poorest of road conditions...
...into press comment on his Administration. If the President really was losing some of his good will with the nation's publishers, he took a step last week which won him a fresh armful of bouquets from them- and a shower of brickbats from organized reporters. Over the protest of the American Newspaper Guild, President Roosevelt ordered the National Labor Relations Board to pass the case of Dean Sothern Jennings back to the Newspaper Code Authority's Industrial, Board for final settlement...
...heresies. But as soon as he heard that Within the Gates had taken to the road, was due in Boston this week, the Rev. Russell M. Sullivan, S. J., of the Boston College Council of Catholic Organizations, scuttled over to the City Hall. There he lodged a loud protest with Mayor Frederick William Mansfield, a devout Catholic like Massachusetts' new Governor James Michael Curley...
...proudly holding up cocktail shakers-and the notice stated the debutantes 'will serve the cocktail which promises to have a truly elephantine kick.' " Driving his point home, he humphed: "I should think one of the things the present members of the Colonial Dames could do is to protest against some of the things that pass as 'smart' in modern society...
...that curious journalistic ethic which forbids a newspaper to mention a competitor if it can possibly be avoided, no New York daily except Mr. Hearst's American reported the protest...