Word: protest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fact that if regulation is at least somewhat justified AND if you get away with it, it is probably as nearly justified as any personal regulation can be. It is only when regulation transgresses too intimately with our persons that natural inertia can be overcome sufficiently to make us protest. Silver and Gold...
...European protest against U. S. film domination last week erupted thrice...
...have made scare-head scandal stories of the matter, weekly journals of opinion have run scathing editorials and searing special articles, organizations so far removed as the California League of Women Voters have issued special manifestoes. Harvard men everywhere have been made the object of sarcastic inquiry and scornful protest, as though they were in someway responsible for the ineptitude of the Comptroller's office...
...state the right to buy and sell light wines and beer. On the next page, the story of Coast Guardsmen who, drunk on captured evidence, placed a "huge railroad switch tie on the tracks" just for a prank. On either side of this last bit of news, the protest of a New Jersey State Commission against the Volstead Act the demands of the Prohibition Commissioner for wood alchol poison in industrial alchol, and accounts of action to come before the House Judiciary Committee for the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment...
...faculty infringement on their privileges, the removal of a popular professor, or any form of unjust domination, a riot may be the answer. Riots made to order, riots on the spur of the moment, or riots made necessary by the clammy hand of tradition, they are always a protest against the limitation of freedom...