Word: protest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kansas Legislature's adjournment last week, Governor Harry Woodring vetoed three bills to restore Death by electricity as the maximum Kansas punishment for first-degree murder or robbery with firearms. The last legal execution by the State was in 1870. Amid a chorus of praise and protest Governor Woodring explained: "My veto of these bills is not actuated by any maudlin sympathy for the criminal. It is axiomatic that it is not the severity but the certainty of punishment that deters the criminal. Public opinion is overwhelmingly against these bills...
...Hull speech was too tame, too polite a protest for Arkansas' barrel-chested, full-blooded Senator Joseph Taylor Robinson. His face as red as his necktie, he leaped to the platform, began an address of his own. He waved his arms, shook his fists at Chairman Raskob. He thundered and bellowed. He worked himself up into a passion of dissent. Cried...
...years ago Columbia Valley farmers protested to Washington, D. C. (TIME, April 22, 1929). Washington forwarded the protest to the International Joint Commission to which, heretofore, only waterway controversies have been referred. Last week the State Department was happy to announce that the Commission had unanimously recommended: 1) payment by the smelting company of $350,000 to the U. S. to be distributed among the damaged husbandmen, orchardists, stockmen; 2) payment for all possible future damage. It was reported that the smelter is now spending $10,000,000 to abate its deadly fumes. Full of satisfaction, although the Commission...
...Jerusalem is calculated to give offence to the Vatican. The ecclesiastical and international balance at Jerusalem is delicately poised and easily upset and it is recalled that two years ago Dr. Lang's projected visit to Jerusalem was abandoned, it is said, at the Vatican's protest...
...immediate reason for hurrying to inspect the model and renderings exhibited last week. Two of the three architects of Radio City-Raymond Mathewson Hood and Harvey Wiley Corbett-are also architects of the much publicized 1933 Chicago World's Fair. Fortnight ago at a meeting to protest the exclusion of the modernist pioneer Frank Lloyd Wright from the commission of Fair architects (TIME, March 9) the Fair designs of Architects Hood & Corbett were bitterly attacked as "fake modernism," "eclectic shams," "a pretty cardboard picture of ancient wall masses...