Word: protest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...behalf of patriotic Americans and particularly as representing several hundred thousand men who served their country in the great World War, I am writing to protest against your eulogy of the Australian radical, Harry Bridges, particularly in view of the inaccuracies contained in the article in question [TIME, July 19]. Real Americans are interested in ridding this country of alien agitators who impose upon our hospitality and who attempt to destroy the very government under which they live and have their being, and yet we find a national publication doing much to offset our own activities and to place upon...
...lights came on suddenly, the picture faded from the screen and the sound equipment boomed: "Attention, please, ladies & gentlemen. This is the motion picture operator speaking to you from the booth. There is no trouble with the equipment and no cause for alarm. I am using this means to protest to you against the inhuman working conditions in this theatre. I work seven days a week, eleven and one-half hours a day, have no vacations, no rest. I eat in the booth where the heat is sometimes unbearable. The management refuses to listen...
Real purpose of the service was to protest against the Government's intention to ratify a Concordat with the Vatican, placing the Catholic Church in Yugoslavia on equality with the entrenched Orthodox Church. The congregation of 5,000, largely women and girls, closed in behind the procession, sang hymns and prayed, as it moved through the streets to the Church of St. Sava. Reaching the centre of Belgrade, they faced double ranks of gendarmes, who charged on the congregation. Women fled in terror. The police cracked down with rifle butt and truncheon on the chanting priests. Hoary old Bishop...
...Marie Antoinette, The Magnificent Comedy, and George Pomeroy composed them for the delectation of a drinking group formed the spring before and called the Whiffenpoofs. G. Schirmer, Inc. contest that they got the rights to the song for an official Yale Song Book. Miller Music, Inc. protest that Authors Minnigerode & Pomeroy authorized them to publish the song as arranged by Vallee, as sheet music last year...
Last week Belgian War veterans continued to stage protest demonstrations in various parts of the Kingdom, dramatically tearing their War medals off their breasts and flinging them down, to indicate that their War sacrifice seems to them in vain now that Flemish "traitors" have been amnestied. They kept this up even after King Leopold roundly told them: "You saved Belgium once before, and now you must save Belgium again!" (by keeping quiet). Although Minister of Justice Victor de Laveleye, administrator of the Amnesty Law, is himself a decorated War veteran, he recently emerged from an official visit to the Mons...