Word: protest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...person with no Jewish blood I add my protest against showing particular honor to Ernest F. Hanfstaengl...
...that the Turks had forbidden the Maiotis' departure. Next day when the ban continued he was alarmed. Turkish police came out and demanded that he go ashore with them. Indignantly he refused, and handsome, swarthy John Ioannis Mousouris, master of the Maiotis, hurried down from the bridge to protest volubly in Greek. Sadly puzzled and somewhat dismayed, the Turkish police retired to their launch...
Nobody was greatly pleased by the Administration's latest airmail plans unless it was the small independent operators who thought they saw their chance to get into the field. Democratic Senators O'Mahoney, Logan, McGill and Erickson decried it. Airline operators, rumbling concerted protest, argued that lines not now engaged in air transport could not get ready to carry mail 45 days hence. Most vociferous was President Richard W. Robbins of Transcontinental & Western Air ("The Lindbergh Line"). Using such words as "insane," "crazy quilt," "ghastly blunder," "gorgeous comedy of public error," Mr. Robbins described last week...
...steel union, forming its own company union, and declining to supply a list of its employes for the National Labor Board to hold a poll on union preference. Promptly the leaders of the A. F. of L. steel union marched to the White House and filed a protest with the President: "Even if this proceeding wins it does not force Weir to deal with our union. "We wish to point out, secondly, that this court proceeding may last a year until the NRA is over. . . . "Finally, therefore, we call upon you to get Weir to comply with the NRA within...
Meantime outraged Berkeley citizens have been meeting weekly in Citizens, Voters, Taxpayers and Economy Leagues to howl protest. Parents complain that their homes are upset by irregular school hours, that hygiene in tent-schools is bad, that the earthquake phobia is worse than earthquake...