Word: protest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Allow me to add my protest to A. M. Hos-singer's in the matter of your printing Mr. Cord's oath...
...raise a voice in shrill protest over TIME'S chronicling of the recent Automobile Show at New York (TiME...
...Manhattan where, over public protest, the world's largest bridge was last year named for Washington and where a scandal in connection with the sale of Washington seals has already occurred, a project was on foot to erect a replica of Mount Vernon in Bryant Park. When the Metropolitan Museum of Art removed from its walls to the basement Emanuel Leutze's painting of Washington Crossing the Delaware, popular clamor compelled it to lug the massive picture up again for temporary hanging in its American Wing...
...time to master them now, but he has familiarized himself with the career of Washington and considers it his principal duty to see that others do so also. When Congress tried to cut down the Commission's appropriation from $477,000 to $200,000, he took the floor to protest. Preoccupation with the father of the country which his own father adopted has bred in Sol Bloom a trace of Washington's fixity of purpose, his confidence in an ideal. With Washingtonian arrogance, though without Virginian hauteur, he wrote to a professor whom Mrs. Bloom had heard to say that...
Though what justice may be he does not know, he has plenty of ideas and experience as to what injustice is. The sight of men being oppressed, and then suppressed when they have stepped into legal traps, was too painful for him to bear without protest. He makes no altruistic pretensions, says honestly: "It was really my lively imagination which put me in the other fellow's place and made me suffer with him; so I only relieved him to help myself...