Word: protest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jalalpur, they planned to take pails of water*from the sea, extract the salt therefrom in direct defiance of the British government's Indian salt monopoly and tax. This symbolic act would inaugurate the Civil Disobedience campaign, long contemplated by Saint Gandhi as a new, potential means of protest against British rule (TIME, Jan. 13 et ante). Thereafter, countless adherents of Saint Gandhi would be expected to harass the British government with similar infractions...
...oriental rugs, and price less paintings. The liquor is the best Canada has to offer. Would Mr. Liggett like a cocktail? We can offer baits" "Tin "stingers," Roofs" and, ''Clover if he is Clubs," a "Dr. lover of the Eisen-drama, a "Strange Intercourse." Please print this protest so that the citizens of our fair city will not be objects of scorn and shame. TIME'S Minneapolis, records Minn. reveal no HAMMOND EGZS Minneapolis a lish unverified Minneapolis statements, especially subscriber-of-record those re in ports dicting a to the whole contrary, community. TIME will accept...
...recent letter sent to President Stanley of Amherst, the flery class of 1932 presents a clear-cut and convincing case before the faculty that deprived them of all cut privileges. For the sake of the college, the sophomore class chose formal protest. Instead of open revolt and in so doing placed the faculty in a position of defense. Caught in the wheels of a precedent of three years standing, the fear of scorn from other classes forced the sophomores to carry out a performance which many thought "fool-hardy and dangerous." Acting directly counter to a student-faculty agreement...
Since the great communist scare of 1919. "treat 'em rough" has been the apparent policy of the United States in dealing with the so-called "Red" element of the population. Aside from characteristic protest from such liberal journals as the Nation no one has become very much excited over a situation which places the government in the position of an avowed suppressor of political minorities to whom the constitution guarantees freedom. Anarchist outrages like the Wall Street bombing identified the communist party in the public mind as an outlawed enemy of society to whom no treatment was just save that...
...basis for such protest, however, is found as much in the result as in the cause itself. The present system of entrance requirements has made of the preparatory school no more than a necessary link in a systematic, and oftentimes cruelly mechanical, chain. Under the dictates of the Old and the New Plans the secondary school of today is rapidly affiliating itself with the professional tutoring bureau which retains at least the saving grace of making no pretenses or excuses for its existence. A preparatory training should undoubtedly have more to offer than an intensive competition which is limited...