Word: protest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first defence, that the statement on the ballots to vote preferentially was a misprint, is astoundingly weak; it is generally the custom for the men in charge to proof-read such important documents as ballots. If they had done so, the mistake would never have happened. Secondly, their protest that the straight vote system has been used exclusively in past years and should be this year does not take into account the important objection that, because of their mistake, the Senior Class voted preferentially and the ballots should have been counted preferentially to insure actual representation...
...next, to debunking of the endurance flight stunt. His third column was a potpourri of impressions beginning, "Understand that sanitary conditions [at Newark Airport] are to be improved and that provision is being made for the comfort and convenience of air-voyagers." Last week came an impassioned if unoriginal protest against the newspaper practice of playing up airplane crashes while auto and rail accidents are treated casually...
After reading 80 angry letters of protest, William J. Egan, director of Public Safety in Newark, N. J., last week told Sidney Franklin (Frumkin), Brooklyn toreador, that he could not hold a bullfight in New Jersey. Toreador Franklin had planned one for next week. He wanted to show U. S. citizens how he did it in Spain. He promised that it would be a gentle fight. He planned to use a rubber sword, pad the bull's horns. He said he would wave his cape and let the bull run at him. But not unless it was absolutely necessary...
When Minnie Maddern Fiske, animal-loving actress, read about the fight she was in New Haven lecturing to Yale students. Instead of telling them about modern drama she urged them to write letters of protest to New Jersey authorities. Many gallantly complied, including Professor William Lyon Phelps. Other letters came from President Jonn Grier Hibben of Princeton University; the Lord's Day Alliance, the Woman's National Sabbath Alliance, the Humane Society of New York, the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals...
...being too precariously balanced to meet this extra charge, the MacDonald Government tried to pigeonhole the bill, was suddenly knifed in the back by radical Laborite James Maxton (sworn foe of his Chief) who moved for im mediate action, hoping that the House would vote the pensions against Government protest, thus unseating the Cabinet. Dopesters declared that Scot MacDonald was saved from being ousted as Prime Minister solely by the striking of the hour agreed for adjournment...