Word: protest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Referring to your article Historic Saturday in TIME, February 13, in which reference is made to President R. S. Hecht of Hibernia Bank & Trust Company, I cannot refrain from lodging my protest regarding at least one unfair reflection. . . . That John J. Gannon, whom he (Mr. Hecht) displaced, spent the brief balance of his life cursing Rudolf Hecht in all public places as a double crosser. No more thoroughly incorrect insinuation could you possibly have published, for the facts are that when, 15 years ago, the board of directors decided to retire Mr. Gannon without pay and informed Mr. Hecht that...
...than an adolescent desire to make a noise; the students felt that they had been summarily and stupidly dealt with, and that efforts to clamp down on the free expression of undergraduate opinion deserved a plain and speedy answer. Such incldents as these, and the ill-feeling and organized protest stirred up, show not nearly the touchiness and independence of the student body, but more particularly the need of a saner policy on the part of the college and student councils in place of the present stubborn and antagonistic attitude...
...first case, the protest is against the arrest and persecution of Wang Ping, the Chinese student leader of the Amalgamated Labor Unions of China, who was first arrested and accused of Communistic utterances by General Hsiao-Lang, the chief of the army opposing the Japanese in Jehel, and then turned over to General Kai-Shek of the Nanking government, who now threatens to execute...
Said the Most Rev. William Temple, Archbishop of York: "For some reason which I think perfectly idiotic, there is a special sentiment against hanging women. I do wish the women of England would rise up and protest. I think it is a horrible insult to them. They ought to resent it with ferocity...
...possible that Governments will still continue to make trade pacts with the Bolshevist murderers? . . . Will the League of Nations go on discussing questions of peace and disarmament with the representatives of a Government whose chief method of work is a bloody terror? . . . Open your eyes. Unite in a common protest against the tortures of 160,000,000 defenseless Russian people...