Word: protest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...convening more than 900 Commissioners to the 143rd annual General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. To a hotel three miles from that part of Pittsburgh where delegates were registering the 15 hurried, there voted to delete their recommendation. Mother Church, alarmed by many a protest since the report was issued, had made them quickly drop the hot potato. Moderator elected that afternoon was Dr. Lewis Seymour Mudge of Philadelphia. Princeton graduate (1889), pastor for 26 years in churches in Beverly and Trenton, N. J., Lancaster and Harrisburg. Pa., since 1921 he has been Stated Clerk...
When Veterinary White prepared to carry out his client's orders, Los Angeles stirred with sharp protest. The evening Herald launched a crusade to save the animals. A Mrs. Nancy T. White of Manhattan, visiting in Los Angeles, hired an attorney, who obtained a writ to prevent the execution. A date was set for the trial before Judge J. Walter Hanby of Superior Court in Los Angeles County. He received thousands of letters and telegrams from all over the land, even from Europe. The attorney received so many telephone calls that he had to install a second trunk line...
...sending ballot cards to 5,110 golf clubs, and printing a ballot blank in the magazine. Strictly, Life's poll will not be a true pro-&-con measure of opinion because the form of ballot blank is worded to attract only the objectors. But as a petition of protest, Life is confident that an overwhelming aversion to the new ball will be registered by "the 90% who never break...
...Glen Falls, N. Y., a 10% wage-cut for shirt-cutters in the Yorke, McMullen Leavens and the Bronne factories precipitated a protest strike...
...Louis when Public Service Co. announced a 10% wage-cut for its 3,500 streetcar employes, the motormen and conductors promptly voted to strike in protest. After two days of negotiations, city officials secured from the company and its men a tentative agreement to arbitrate...