Word: protest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...deed came immediately: the President announced his acceptance of Hugh Wilson's resignation as Ambassador to Germany. Mr. Wilson had been home from his post since November. The timing of his permission to resign formally could only be construed as a protest against the invasion of Poland. >Secretary of State Hull in effect suspended outstanding U. S. passports, announced that only in cases of "imperative necessity" will passports hereafter be issued to U. S. citizens for travel in perilous Europe...
...heels of widespread student protest against the dismissal in 1937 of two young Economics instructors, Alan R. Sweezy '29 and J. Raymond Walsh, the Council recommended that student committees be formed in each department to consult with Faculty members of that department on proposed appointments and dismissals...
...exhibit opened on schedule without Munnings. Said he indignantly: "I could not trust myself to be there without shouting out my protest. Having blushed once at my young efforts, I have now to blush again...
Swagger little President Manuel Quezon last week lodged formal protest against such a portrait of Philippine character through his Resident Commissioner Joaquin ("Mike") Elizalde, who emplaned from Washington for California to talk to Mr. Goldwyn. Upshot: for Producer Goldwyn, another well-publicized tribulation; for Commissioner Elizalde, an invitation to attend, with Goldwyn Executive James Roosevelt, the preview of The Real Glory, in which Filipinos will continue to cower...
...pitched battle between strikers and strikebreakers bloodier than any yet seen in the newsreels, a citizens' meeting where a cynical employer (Gene Lockhart) diverts attention from his own misdeeds by an appeal to patriotism that makes the eagle scream. By last week no capitalist had made public protest. But because the picture (possibly in an attempt to avoid the susceptibilities of warring union factions) shows the workers unorganized and misled by an outside agitator, organized labor's box-office pressure group, Film Audiences for Democracy, was last week threatening a boycott...