Word: protest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard Students Protest Against the Inimical Stand of the Overseers to Germany...
...disagreement at Harvard has still another side, however; that is, namely, that Harvard, like all other American universities, is financially supported and furthered not by the state, but by its student body and older men. So with this fact in mind, the above mentioned protest of the students against the Overseers must gain greatly in inner striking power...
...Savannah, Ga. met the 9th biennial convention of the United Lutheran Church. Re-elected president, as he has always been since the Church was organized in 1918, was Vandyke-bearded Dr. Frederick Hermann Knubel of Manhattan. The United Lutherans flayed the liquor traffic and indecent cinema; cabled a protest to Adolf Hitler over the coercion of the German churches; came out for a fixed date for Easter and for more unity among the 18 North American Lutheran bodies. Especially would the United Lutheran Church (1,500,000 members) woo the American Lutheran Church (525,000 members). But the latter...
...wrecks belong to the salvager. Few readers of 1954 would protest the claim of Salvagers Nordhoff & Hall to the Bounty, beached by mutineers on Pitcairn's Island in 1789. Others had been there before them, but Authors Nordhoff & Hall did more than strip the wreck of what was left. Bit by bit they salvaged or reconstructed every piece of the Bounty's history. Last week they finished the long job: in Pitcairn's Island they gave the third and final chapter of this magnificent true story of the sea. (Others: Mutiny on the Bounty-TIME...
...sixteen dead, fifteen had come to violent ends." Principal causes of dissension were women and liquor. There were not enough women to go around; when one of the colony made a successful still, there was too much liquor. First death was a woman's suicide, in protest at her man's unfaithfulness. When the native men, justifiably angered at the whites, started a surprise massacre, all the native men were killed, most of the whites. For a time after this civil war the remaining men lived in a stupor of alcohol and unbridled miscegenation; then the women turned...