Word: protest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President Hoover appointed U. S. Circuit Judge John Johnston Parker to the Supreme Court (see p. 16). Other appointments: Col. Guy Verner Henry to be the Army's Chief of Cavalry; Col. John Wylie Gulick to be the Army's Chief of Coast Artillery. Despite loud protest by some Washington citizens, the President named Major General Herbert Ball Crosby, retired, a District of Columbia Commissioner (TIME, Feb. 17). ¶ To the President was presented last week a report by his National Industrial Survey Conference to the effect that U. S. industry is gradually picking up the momentum...
Loud were the wails of protest from statesmen and delegates. Secretary Stimson, whose delegation has already spent $350,000 at the conference, was particularly annoyed. Said...
Because his army is too famished and ill-equipped to fight the Irish, Essex returns to England against the Queen's express command. It is a characteristic, headstrong action; she slaps his face. To no avail does he protest his former braveries and services; the Queen scourges him with words. Outraged, he attempts to lead the people of London in revolt, is arrested, tried, sentenced to the block...
...trek continued. Mr. Gandhi's head and legs began to ache. At Nawagon, haggard and drooping, he stayed another night, urged the villagers to make and wear homespun clothes, to join the Disobedients. There he profoundly congratulated the eight "head men" who had cheerfully resigned as a protest against Vallabhai Patel's imprisonment. Next day, at Boriavi, he declared: "Money alone will not win self-government. If money could win, I should have obtained it long ago. What is required, therefore, is your blood." When he arrived at Nadiad, Mr. Gandhi sank to the ground, had to have cold compresses...
...united Germany above home, party, creed, etc." The phrase does not mean, never did mean "Germany above every other nation." Wrote Author Ponsonby, M. P., in Falsehood in Wartime: "There must have been many people who knew sufficient German to understand the meaning of the phrase but no protest was made at the mistranslation which was habitually used to illustrate Germany's aggressive imperialist ambitions...