Word: protest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House passed the McDuffie Bill yesterday with scarcely a murmur of protest, and all signs lead us to believe that the Senate will rapidly follow suit. This McDuffie Bill is a revised version of the Hare-Hawes-Cutting Bill rejected by the Philippine Legislature last year, and it grants the Islands an even more complete independence. The changes in the Bill have been favorably commented upon by the President of the Philippine Senate, Manuel Quezon, and other prominent leaders in that legislature, and it is to be expected that the Bill will be immediately granted the required sanction...
Driving along a Washington street one day last week. Farmer-Laborite Representative-at-Large from Minnesota Francis Henry Shoemaker bumped a taxi. When Charles Newman jumped out of his cab to protest, he said Statesman Shoemaker doubled up his ready fists, slugged him. knocked him to the ground twice, cursed him roundly. "I'm a Congressman! Nobody can arrest me!" boasted Statesman Shoemaker few days later when he learned that Newman had sworn out an assault warrant against him.- Then he quietly slipped out of the House of Representatives, disappeared. Presently two Washington detectives appeared at Statesman Shoemaker...
When the Palace plans reached the U. S. last week Sculptor William Zorach let out a cry of protest, charging that the Soviets had stolen an idea submitted by him for a Lenin memorial in Leningrad. Zorach, too, drew concentric cylinders but they represented a base for a shaft that telescoped into a streamlined statue of Lenin. Picking words that would sting most he declared of Iofan's work: "It goes back to the most decadent pseudo-Roman development, the sort of thing old kings and old queens loved, a sort of tremendous wedding cake . . . incorporating the worst archaic...
...meeting was called in protest against an election, scheduled for Tuesday, in which employees of the E. G. Budd auto body plant will vote on whether they want a closed shop or a company union...
...prominent men on the ground that they violated the law opens up a new procedure. Heretofore if you made a mistake in your return, the Government would write you a letter giving you thirty days in which to show cause why you should no pay more taxes. After the protest was filed, the Internal Revenue Bureau might or might not agree with the taxpayer. If he were over-ruled, then sixty days were given to submit an appeal to the Board of Tax Appeals and the case could go all the way to the Supreme Court of the United States...