Word: protest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...office wracking their brains for ways to hold their markets. In fact, to most manufacturers guaranteed prices promise heaven on earth so long as the public does not find such prices a barrier to buying. Hence man by man, hour by hour, Business rose to argue and protest against what NRA proposed. The substance of the argument was put on its highest plane by George A. Sloan, head of the Cotton Textile Code Authority: ''Maximum hours and minimum wage provisions, useful and necessary as they are in themselves, do not prevent price demoralization. While putting the units...
...Poland Restored; and from the White Russians, the Order of the Compassionate Heart. His pronouncements, issued with passionate conviction, are oratorical. He boasts that only three Senators and three Representatives have been in Congress before his day, that by a wave of his hand thousands of telegrams of protest will descend on the Congressional desk that dares oppose the Legion. These, like many of his assertions, are ritualistic rather than literal truths...
While students rose in protest against the action of Boston's Mayor, faculty members expressed disapproval of the ban. Several went on record as declaring that Boston had been deprived of a great artistic experience and that the action was quite as stupid as the banning of "Strange Interlude...
...King of Kings, Conquering Lion of Judah and the Elect of God was last week trying to invoke Article XI of the League covenant. To Rome last week Geneva seemed particularly far away. Neither Mussolini nor Laval is squeamish. A definite impression got around that France will not protest too much if Italy makes of Abyssinia what Japan made of Manchuria...
...front page was the customary offering of foreign news, the cartoon, the Washington column. Their place was taken by a slew of local stories, mostly short, and all written with a forced gaiety that would have made the Oregonian's late, great Editor Harvey Scott writhe in angry protest. Headlines were blacker, shallower. Inside were more and bigger pictures than Oregonian readers had ever seen. A banner headline glared across the sports page, and there were awful rumors that one might soon stream across Page One. Crowning horror was a Bible contest, with fat cash prizes and endorsement...