Word: protest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...State University, seven pacifist students who refused to take R.O.T.C. on the ground that they were conscience-bound to oppose military training in any form, were expelled. . . . At City College, New York, thirty-four students were expelled or suspended for "past activities," which turned out to be parades of protest against the continuance of military training at a liberal college...
...Army, he should accept his responsibility for his brother's sins by resigning. Mildly the old Genro tried to dissuade him, pointed out that Brother Yukichi had been indicted before Hayashi was made Minister of War. Hayashi was firm. And last week, despite the Cabinet's unanimous protest, he resigned, rocking Saito's boat for the sixth time. Meanwhile a faction of young army officers was rumored busy building up Hayashi's resignation into a reason why Premier Saito's entire cabinet should resign. When Hayashi got wind of that, his temper changed. Prince Kanin...
...delegation of Lexington citizens left for Washington on Tuesday to protest against the "unreasonable interference by the Federal Government" in the affairs "of a free people." They presented a petition signed by 1200 townsmen to Congress, protesting against interference in business, against extension of emergency legislation, against increase of bureaus, boards, and commissions, against wasteful expenditures; and against the overhasty passage of legislation...
...government post in future who already draws a pension. Veterans' pensions will be cut. Politicians waited nervously to see how the public would react to these decrees. By & large it was orderly, but in Paris 1,600 employes of the Central Telegraph office staged a brief protest strike...
Meantime in Washington last week it became clear that the rolling barrage of protest against the bill to control stock and exchanges was beginning to tell. For the first time since the bristling measure was introduced last February, Congressional comment was offered without the tired phrase, "with teeth in it." The people's representatives reported that on some days they received literally sacks of objecting mail, not all from brokers and businessmen but even from schoolteachers and pastors. In the Senate Banking Committee such innocuous sections of the bill as the declaration of public policy (with which even President...