Word: protest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...worse. From day to day the Treasury's revenue estimates were shrinking. It became apparent that some broad new base of taxation might have to be sought. It also became apparent that some of the voting for stiff "nuisance taxes" was for the purpose of exciting potent public protest and driving the Senate toward some other tax. What tax this was, everyone knew-a Manufacturers' Sales Tax such as had been beaten in the House...
Promptly the new Premier of New South Wales, Conservative B. S. B. Stevens, tried to spike the Piddington protest by saying that "the opinion of the best constitutional lawyers is opposed to Justice Piddington's view...
...back up his opinion Justice Albert Bathurst Piddington resigned last week in protest against the action of the crown, resumed his scholarly researches as president of the Australian Modern Languages Association. Friends of Mr. Justice Piddington recalled that he was not appointed to the Industrial Court during the Lang régime but previously. They prophesied that his stand will enable ex-Premier Lang to stump New South Wales in the coming election on the issue of Royal meddling in the affairs of a sovereign Australian state...
...late Governor Sir William Gregory of Ceylon; in Belfast. An able playwright (Cuchulain of Muirthemne, Gods & Fighting Men, Saints & Wonders), she sponsored the "Celtic Renaissance" with George Moore, William Butler Yeats, Edward Martyn. Creating an Irish National Theatre out of Abbey Theatre, she aroused a storm of protest with her productions. So unpopular was John Millington Synge's Playboy of the Western World that Lady Gregory's young nephews had to fetch burly athletes from Trinity College to quell the rioting...
Editor Brisbane and all other Manhattan news executives had reason to wish the World-Telegram well in its fight with local merchants. Twelve large department stores had withdrawn their advertising from the World-Telegram, presumably in protest against a rate increase. Department store lineage-about one-third of a paper's total lineage-dropped 80% in a week. John Wanamaker, R. H. Macy & Co. and James A. Hearn & Son alone remained...