Word: protest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Perhaps the Harvard president is a little radical in the limits he would place on college athletics, but he voices a protest to the over emphasis of sports for gate receipts that is worthy of careful consideration by every university in this country. William Howard Taft, a young man, has also recently taken a public stand against commercialism in college athletics. He laments the fact that so many men are sacrificing educational advantages by alloting too much of their time to sports. Daily Northwestern...
...insidious influence of the avaricious advertiser and his stupid insistence on direct advertising have, I regret to observe, become increasingly effective and devastating. As the so-called Father of Radio Broadcasting. I wish again to raise my voice in protest against this revolting state of affairs. ... In all seriousness I attribute a part of the present undeniable slackening in radio sales to the public as actually due to this pernicious advertising. The radio public is, I believe, becoming nauseated by the quality of many of the present programs. Short-sighted "greed of the broadcasters, station owners and advertising agencies...
...that the Civic Opera Company remove from its Hansel production the inebriate father whose shortcomings are so clearly shown to be of evil consequence. The Woman's Executive Committee of the Civic Opera Company held a conclave, unanimously passed a motion to ignore the Temperance Union's protest. Said Mrs. Henry M. Tracy, president of the Company: "It is perfectly idiotic and shows the lack of knowledge on the part of members of the W. C. T. U. of opera. For even if we wished to, we could not change the libretto of the opera without the permission...
Bitter, of course, was the protest of pilots at this grading and economizing. About 50 flying men gathered at once on Long Island. Practical, they admitted to the Curtiss-Wright company: "The economic condition of Eastern pilots in winter prohibits our direct refusal of the terms you offer." Less immediately practical, they telegraphed the National Pilots Association at Cleveland, which is a sort of flyers' union, for permission to join and for its Secretary Carl Francis Egge to go East to organize them...
...privilege of coining money and carrying out the Treasury functions of the Government. The contract between the Haitians and the bank provided that disputes were to be settled by arbitration and that there was to be no diplomatic intervention. The bank was originally a French corporation. The United States protested, however, against "the establishment in Haiti of a monopoly which excluded American enterprise" and declared the contract "disastrous to the sovereignty of Haiti and unjust in its operations in regard to the people and Government of Haiti." The French Company agreed to allow a group of American bankers, headed...