Word: protest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many of those who have lately invested a dime in a ride on the subway that so conveniently links Cambridge and Boston must have noticed the advertisement, paid for by the W. C. T. U., which, accepted as truthful, would carry a pofgnant and commanding appeal. "Protest your children," it reads, "Make out highways dryways. Vote No for the repeal of the Bady Volstead Act on Nov. 4th." To make the message more arresting, the advertisement carries a realistic picture of what seems to be a drunken driver, a smashed automobile, and a mangled body...
...President Hoover has attempted to improve U. S. diplomatic representation in Latin-America by appointing ministers and ambassadors there who were trained foreign service men. Such a man is Leland Harrison whom President Hoover transferred as Minister from Sweden to Uruguay over Mr. Harrison's protest. At Montevideo, listed by the State Department as one of the five most expensive posts in the world, Minister Harrison, unable to find suitable quarters elsewhere, took a hotel suite at $18,000 per year, as against a rental allowance of $3,000 per year. He began to write letters to Secretary...
...Smoot rates, but failed to up them enough to win the election. Prime Minister Bennett, pledged to smack on duties as high as the U. S. rates if not higher, awaits only the assembling of the new parliament this month to execute this promise. Minister MacNider was ready to protest for the U. S. but his protests were expected to be no more effective than those of Canada against the new U. S. tariff...
...Chief Democratic composer: Charles Michelson, director of publicity. They write the statements that are issued under the names of party leaders. So sharp have been Composer Michelson's attacks on President Hoover that last week Chairman William Robert Wood of the Republican Congressional Campaign cried out in hurt protest, charged the Democrats and Mr. Michelson with a "plot" to slander the President and undermine his influence. The Democratic New York World promptly turned up the fact that G. O. Pressagent West was admitted to President Hoover's press conference in open violation of the rule excluding...
Rumania's Minister to Jugoslavia made fervent protest in Belgrade last week against a Jugo-Slav operetta, His Majesty in a Bathing Suit, which, said he, was an obvious caricature of the love affairs of King Carol II. King Carol's spectacled brother-in-law. Dictator-King Alexander, ordered the offending scenes censored...