Word: protest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...protest against the abrupt interruption by the metropolitan police of the first meeting of the Polar Bear Club, Lee A. Diamond '41, and Robert H. Davis '41, cold weather lovers, swam in the Charles River and walked up to Harvard Square for the exercise early last evening...
...Committee's action is an out-growth of the student sentiment which was mobilized at a mass meeting held Wednesday, November 16, to protest the Nazi outrages which followed the recent killing of German Ambassador Vom Rath in Paris. Carl J. Friedrich, professor of Government, and one of the nine sponsoring professors, has been a guiding hand in its development...
...issued a statement denying that he had ever attacked Adolf Hitler, or that he had been silent at the accession of Sudetenland, and declaring: "I expressed my thanks to the Führer and ordered thanksgiving services and the ringing of bells for the whole of the Ostmark. I protest against the mortifying reproach that I placed myself in deliberate opposition to the Führer and the nation during those great days of the German people...
...paper O Globo appeared a sharp protest from Argentina, No. 1 South American wheat country, against Mr. Theis's announced plan to sell 15,000,000 bushels of wheat in Brazil under the U. S. aegis. Right beside the protest was a careful explanation of the Theis thesis: Although he was going to Brazil to dump wheat (he used the more polite word "sell"), he was just a plain businessman, not a U. S. Government agent...
Argentina's protest made no dent on the U. S. Department of Agriculture despite the U. S. "good neighbor" policy. Argentina, world's sixth wheat producer, has been a noncooperating, in & out member of the International Wheat Advisory Committee, has been the principal impediment to world stabilization of wheat 'prices. Mr. Theis's desire to sell wheat to Brazil, a fat Argentine wheat market, was calculated to joggle Argentina one step nearer to cooperation with the international group...