Word: protest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reading Tariffs Sirs: I would like to know if the U. S. has ever been guilty of levying a tariff on any kind of literature coming into her borders. If she (or he) has I shall be like "the boy the calf ran over." If not. I rise to protest that it is tyrannical to make a poor prairie farmer who can get only 4 1/2? per Ib. for his wool pay $8 for TIME when a Californian who is protected by a 31? tariff can get the same publication...
Supreme Court has upheld the validity of the law; the U. S. Supreme Court has refused to review that decision. Nonetheless the farmers have continued to protest. As another testing season came around Iowa farmers had worked themselves into dirty tempers. Injunctions were issued restraining 40 of the farmers from interfering with the tests...
...when Steel's finance committee met last week in the unadorned Steel Corporation offices at No. 71 Broadway. But present were his partner Thomas William Lament, Committee Chairman Myron Charles Taylor and Banker George Fisher Baker Jr. Just as in 1921 the finance committee lowered wages over the protest of Judge Gary, last week in effect it politely edited President Farrell's former statement to read: "Oh yes, wages in the steel industry are coming down 10%." Handsome Chairman Taylor made the announcement. The actual, fateful words were: "For the purpose of better meeting prevailing, unsatisfactory conditions...
There are also on exhibition some of the lottery tickets which were sold in order to procure funds for completing Stoughton Hall and building Holworthy; the first copies of the CRIMSON and Lampoon; and an apology by the students who walked out of Commons in the year 1807 in protest against maggots in their soup...
...hand to expedite the clearance of the couple's 17 pieces of baggage. But customs officers insisted on closely inspecting every piece. Moreover, they questioned and requestioned the owners on the value of each item. Mr. Mackay was nearly speechless with astonishment and indignation. He would personally protest to Secretary Mellon. Tears began to course down his wife's cheeks as the examination dragged on. At the end of two and a half hours the customs men found nothing not listed on the declarations. It was understood that a tipster in Europe, greedy for the Federal reward...