Word: protest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bermuda came out with a statement publicly castigating himself: "The Bishop regrets that, yielding to a sudden impulse which he ought to have known better how to control, he so far forgot himself. . . . He realizes that he had no right whatever to take this arbitrary action. ... If this protest was needed, there is no possible excuse for the manner in which it was made, particularly by one who might be expected to set an example of orderly and seemly behavior, and the Bishop can only say that he blames himself as severely as any other person can blame...
...carries an extra forged passport in the name of "Al Frey" in addition to his own, but Rotterdam police have not. They know Dr. Adler well and one day last August, when he handed them his forged passport by mistake, they arrested him. In vain Dr. Adler continued to protest right up to last week that "it is for use only in Germany and Italy." An unsympathetic Dutch court last week sentenced him to four months in jail...
...sidetracked by the Chicago World's Fair of 1893. Eastern conservatives turned the fair into a magnificent tour de force of neoclassic buildings, and for a quarter-century eclecticism held the stage in U. S. public architecture. Wright kept off the stage. In 1905 he produced, in protest, a well-lighted administration building for the Larkin Co. in Buffalo, severely without ornament, the first office building in the U. S. to use 1) metal-bound, plate-glass doors and windows, 2) all-metal furniture, 3) air conditioning, 4) magnesite as an architectural material...
...settled for an apology, promise of indemnity and guarantee against future attack (see p. 7). No Japanese newspaper printed the text of the apology, and the divine Emperor Hirohito-who did not feel that politeness required him to reply to President Roosevelt's personal protest-opened the Imperial Diet with a Speech from the Throne which omitted mention of the Panay. "We feel greatly gratified to see relations between Japan and her treaty powers growing in friendship and cordiality" read His Imperial Majesty. "Our officers and men, winning every battle, are enhancing their military prestige, both at home...
Trust-Buster Jackson will now presumably start over again with another grand jury in another Federal district. Meanwhile last week his boss, Attorney General Homer S. Cummings, took the matter seriously enough to send a protest to the House Judiciary Committee. Terming the case "not an isolated instance of arbitrary, unjust and unfair conduct on the part of Judge Geiger." Mr. Cummings declared, "this course of conduct is so obstructive to the administration of justice that I could not justify a failure to bring it to your attention...