Word: protest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...protest your designation of No. 2 hero to Colonel Lindbergh...
...wish to protest most vigorously against the sentence in your Feb. 19 review of the cinema Carolina, wherein you say: ". . . Lionel Barrymore plays a sniveling old Confederate veteran...
...time with his hand to his mouth. There were embarrassing documents in the record. One was a telegram he had sent to Mr. Hanshue: "Still have hopes General will approve your high bid. ... If he renders decision giving you contract under low bid, accept first checks under protest and file claim for the difference. This seems . . . foolish but it is a precedent in-the general's office. ... If nothing happens first next week my father and I will see McCarl again." A letter written after the contract had been approved presented a bill for $15.000 "for the specific services...
...study of the facts mistakes may be pointed out before it is too late to remedy them. The NRA meeting this week, together with the sessions last week, marks a milestone in the history of American business. The code authority members here were chosen by industry itself. Many will protest against tariff changes. Members of Congress from districts that have had and need protective tariffs will declaim and conscientiously object to change. The vote will show a split in the Democratic as well as the Republican parties, but Mr. Roosevelt will...
...Moscow Japanese Ambassador Tamekichi Ota, before auction day came, went to see Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinoff to protest. Mr. Litvinoff, though he had gone to Mr. Ota's reception a fortnight ago, sent out word that now he had "no time" to discuss the matter. The Japanese Government said it had not been informed of the new rate, it was a "discourtesy" and "a serious breach of international agreement," it all proved how untrustworthy Russians are "even when matters of importance are involved...