Word: protest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...store-door tariffs for its entire system. So did Erie and Grand Trunk. Thus an entirely new factor was suddenly introduced into the highly-competitive trunk line territory. New York Central, Pennsylvania's traditional rival, led 16 other big eastern roads in a mighty howl of protest to the I. C. C. They failed to agree with Pennsylvania's William Wallace Atterbury that store-door service was the only way to wean back l.c.l. freight now in the hands of truckers. They doubted that the service would be worth its cost. But they were sure that if Pennsylvania...
...That was all cleared up long ago!" cried the Dutchman. "I set the tire. None of these other defendants had anything to do with it. A symbolism has come into this trial and I protest against...
...nation-wide Communist revolt. Not the slightest proof of this ever materialized, the Nazis themselves assuming all power instead and using the Reichstag fire as an excuse for Chancellor Hitler's repressive acts (TIME, March 13 et seq.). Last week amid Firebug van der Lubbe's passionate protest, Judge Bunger suspended the trial for half an hour and the Dutchman was led below. When brought back into court he again seemed stupefied as in the past but suddenly began to writhe and gasp as though struggling to throw off his stupor. "I can't say anything...
...experienced and liberal minded confrere had been given the job was not enough to make the correspondents believe Mr. Morgenthau's disavowal of censorship. Always quick to resent such tactics the correspondents promptly expressed their feelings in a letter to President Roosevelt at Warm Springs: "We . . . formally protest against the rigid restrictions imposed by Mr. Morgenthau. . . . The Secretary's order includes factual or statistical information ordinarily available to the Press through officials. . . . It is our belief that the goodwill between the Treasury Department and the Press, built up in the last 15 years, has been seriously impaired. . . ." Well...
...Against fiery old "Gus" Kirby stood equally fiery Brigadier-General Charles H. Sherrill, American member of the International Olympic Committee and onetime Ambassador to Turkey. Barked General Sherrill: "In its present form [this resolution] is a threat to Germany. I move it be amended so as to be a protest...