Word: protest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With no apologia, alibi or alias, I hereby and now register vehement protest against the harsh treatment and slurring references which you made against the fair suburb of Cicero in the Nov. 20 issue of TIME (p. 16). I do this on behalf of 70,000 residents of the town, 70,000 of the finest people in the United States of America...
Ziegler traces the evolution of the clubs which line Prospect Street from the time the Ivy was established in 1879 to the protest issued by Sophomores last spring when 59 per cent found the system in need of improvement and 29 per cent advocated fundamental changes...
...Loudest protest of all was fired off in London by Mamoru Shigemitsu, Japan's Ambassador. He was instructed to say that "in case vital interests of Japan should be affected . . . Japan would be compelled to take appropriate counter-measures." This was tough talk from a country whose fondness for Germany is supposed to have been cooled by the Hitler-Stalin Deal. But Japan, threatened by an embargo of U. S. exports to her at the next session of the U. S. Congress, faced a tough spot...
...indignant editorial in the Comintern newsorgan Pravda ("Truth") usually denotes the Soviet Government's extreme annoyance, one in the Government-owned paper Izvestia ("News") indicates growing impatience, an official protest demonstrates complete exasperation...
After almost a month of ineffectual grumbling, early this week the Kremlin got so mad at Finland that in the space of 24 hours the Pravda degree was reached and passed, the Izvestia stage was skipped and the white heat of the official protest had arrived...