Word: protest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year to help Chinese finances have ceased remittances. Last year China's trade showed an excess of imports amounting to $200,000,000 and if this continues a few more years the Chinese Republic will be bankrupt." Then came the protest proper: "China ought first to readjust her debts before any more money is loaned. Unless such a readjustment is made an added burden will be placed on the Chinese which will tend to delay unification of the country and the attainment of order and prosperity. . . . This is what Japan cannot countenance as she realizes that it devolves upon...
...rate discrimination in favor of any class of user. Did that threaten the traditional telegraph press rate (one-third of the full day rate, one-sixth of the full night rate) by which U. S. newspapers save $10,000,000 a year? The NEA feared it did, lodged a protest with General Johnson, asked that Section 4 be amended to make press rates sacred. Missing from the NEA banquet was the man whom the delegates had come to honor: Walter Williams, aging president of Missouri University, founder of the journalism school, president of NEA 40 years ago. White-haired "Dean...
Girl I: We're nearly all seniors, but we feel it's our duty to protest against Miss Egan's being appointed Dean...
Before the crowd could register and protest they were pushed and driven from a vacant lot where they were massed, into the street a by a group of burly Boston policemen, swinging clubs freely and shouting curses at the fleeing students. Every person in the way of the blue-coated avalanche was threatened by horses' hooves and night sticks. The right of free speech is one of the cardinal rights of a citizen of the United States and if a group of citizens has secured the right to assemble and parade, there is not reason why brawny guardians...
...Riding into a crowd of massed students as they stood peacefully awaiting an opportunity to protest the welcoming of the German cruiser "Karlsruhe" Boston's highly touted police force was on hand to dispel the crowd before any kind of demonstration could be staged. The necessity of maintaining law and order is acknowledged, but the manner in which it was done yesterday, even before the necessity for so doing arose, may be subject to the harshest criticism...