Word: protest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...protest against your use of Liberalism as applied in matters of morality, in connection with the whore-like picture on p. 21, Dec. 4 TIME. . . . Hereafter, you will be thought of in par with the Police Gazette...
...bland British Captain Albert R. Francis rushed Mr. Untermyer, roaring protest. Rather than risk a large proportion of his company's business, Captain Francis acted promptly, jettisoned all the offensive gewgaws-nearly 1,000. As they plopped into the ocean Mr. Untermyer sat down to his dinner content. Later he went to his cabin, slipped on the edge of his pink tiled bathtub, cut a deep gash over his left...
With a squiggle of his pen Dr. Kung upped China's cigaret taxes by a staggering 50%. Twelve Shanghai cigaret factories instantly closed in protest, locked out 8,000 cigaret makers who shrilly cursed Dr. Kung...
...Chicago's La Salle Hotel suggested to the court that the hotel's creditors be allowed to sleep out their bills. The creditor would be charged regular rates for his accommodations which would be deducted from the amount which the La Salle owed him. Despite strenuous protest from representatives of the major stockholder, the court sanctioned the idea, remarking testily: "I am tired of all this quibbling over infinitesimal trifles. I will sign this order, and if you don't like it you can close the hotel...
...feel that I should take this opportunity to protest against the disposal of spurious propaganda in the dormitories. I am one of the few individuals on the campus who is actively concerned with bolstering up the at all times shaky structure of good will between foreign and American students. I firmly believe that any future attempts to excite nationalistic and racial prejudices on the part of unauthorized and obviously uninformed persons should be definitely discouraged. . . We must guard against allowing the flotsam of political prejudice casting upon us the stigma that we allow ourselves to be msekly impressed by odoriferous...